Essays on Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged skillfully effectively introduces us to a setting where actions and values are placed on a scale and compared to each other. Although the author also deals with many side struggles, her primary conflict is that with human action. Rand is able…

When Thomas More published in 1516 his infamous novel ‘Utopia’ he could not think that he founded a new stream in the literature which was called after his novel. The genre of utopia is peculiar for depicting an ideal society without poverty, crimes, abuse of…

Ayn Rand was known as one of the most intellectual people in the 20th century. As an immigrant from Russia, she was born in 1905 and died in 1982. Rand came to the United States after she graduated from a university in Russia around 1962….

Growing up, Ayn Rand, the author of the short novelette Anthem, experienced some of the tragic things that the main protagonist had gone through in this story first hand. At the time when Ayn Rand resided in Russia, it was a communist country being controlled…

A Different Perspective An Essay on Rand’s Anthem Ayn Rand is correct in her philosophy, which claims that collectivism hinders societal advancement and through Anthem she provides evidence that the individual always conquers to advance society, which can also be exemplified in many real-world historical…

Self-Interest in Morality Egoism is an idea in ethics in which people will act in the interest of themselves or of others depending on their ideas of how they should live their lives. In theory, people should always act in his or her own self-interest,…