By Mrs. Bartel

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Anthem

• By Mrs. Bartel
• Review notes

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Background Notes

• 1905-1982
• Born in Russia-Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum
• Educated under the communists
• Experienced the horrors of totalitarianism
• Defected from Russia in 1926 to America which
  represented her belief system

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Background Notes

• Anthem was written in 1937
• Published in 1938 in England
• Published in America in 1946

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Six Characteristics of
Science
Fiction
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1. Realistic-takes concepts from the past and
projects them into the future.
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2. Characters are well-developed.They hold
contrasting qualities good vs. badMore human
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3. Plot moved by scientific thought and
theory-very little action.
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4. Plot deals with a humans development and
place in his or her society.
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5. Scientific, believable weapons
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To totally understand novel, a person needs a
background in the sciences.
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Theme of Anthem

• the meaning of mans ego
• For essay Give at least three specific examples
  from novel that illustrate this theme with
  quotes.

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Individualism

• In Rands words Individualism regards
  man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity
  who possesses inalienable rights to his own live,
  a right derived from his nature as a rational
  being.
• I will not run anyones life-nor let anyone run
  mine.
• Same rights

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Collectivism

• Collectivism means the subjugation of the
  individual to a group-whether to a race, class or
  state does not matter. Collectivism holds that
  man must be chained to a collective action and
  collective thought for the sake of what is called
  the common good.
• Owned by group and worth determined by group

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Objectivism

• Reality exists as an objective absolute-facts are
  facts, independent of mans feelings, wishes,
  hopes, and fears.
• Reason (the faculty which identifies and
  integrates the material provided by mans senses)
  is mans only means of perceiving reality, his
  only source of knowledge, his only guide to
  action, and his basic means of survival.

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Objectivism

• Manevery manis an end in himself, not the means
  to the ends of others. He must exist for his own
  sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor
  sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his
  own rational self-interest and of his own
  happiness is the highest moral purpose of his
  life.

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Objectivism

• The ideal political-economic system is
  laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where
  men deal with one another, not as victims and
  executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as
  traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual
  benefit.

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Objectivism

• It is a system where no man may obtain any values
  from others by resorting to physical force, and
  no man may initiate the use of physical force
  against others. The government acts only as a
  policeman that protects mans rights it uses
  physical force only in retaliation and only
  against those who initiate its use, such as
  criminals or foreign invaders.

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Invictus by William Henley

• Beyond this place of wrath and tears  
• Looms but the Horror of the shade,
• And yet the menace of the years  
• Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. 
•  It matters not how strait the gate,  
• How charged with punishments the scroll,
• I am the master of my fate  
• I am the captain of my soul.

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Invictus by William Henley

• Out of the night that covers me,  
• Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
• I thank whatever gods may be  
• For my unconquerable soul.  
• In the fell clutch of circumstance 
• I have not winced nor cried aloud.
• Under the bludgeonings of chance  
• My head is bloody, but unbowed.