Essays on Ayn Rand

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 power, etc. All the people are equal, rational and happy. However, both writers and readers understood that such world order is impossible and even may be dangerous. As the contradiction to the genre of utopia, the genre of anti-utopia ...

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 to add dramatic effects to her writing as she integrates the theme of “the role of the mind in human existence.” Atlas Shrugged focuses on the concerns of values and issues that are then further expressed with actions. Rand does ...

Ayn Rand had a lot of theme words and out of all of the theme's I picked individual because it goes more with the theme and it explained the theme more than the other ones do. She had a lot of individual things in the book like equality left and created an invention.The author went through a lot when she was writing the book.she was going through a hard time in her life because of what was going on in the world in her times. So she stopped writing one book to start to write anthem and in the ...

The Fountainhead is a novel full of scheming, plotting, and power struggles. Howard Roark, after avoiding the public eye for some time, leaves the sanctuary of the granite quarry and heads back to New York after being discovered by Roger Enright, a businessman, to design a new apartment building. Soon after the Enright House is completed, Roark receives many promising commissions from people such as Anthony Cord and Kent Lansing. All this time, Ellsworth Toohey observes the success of the ...

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, regardless of the interest of others, unless their interests also serve his or hers. In terms of egoism, acting in one’s own self interest is seen as selfishness and going against the idea of actions benefitting a large-scale group rather than just a few; this view is ...

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 events. Collectivism puts emphasis on society as a whole rather than the individual living within a society. The comparatives in this essay will be the Holocaust, North Korea and The Underground Railroad to Canada using various pieces of ...

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 by the government. Ayn and her family had fled to the United States in hopes that they could pursue a better life over there. When Ayn wrote Anthem in 1938, it was to give an insight about how her life living in a totalitarian country was ...

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. In the U.S. she established herself writing fiction and becoming a passionate philosophy advocate. She often times called this desired philosophy, “Objectivism.” This philosophy is in the Aristotelian tradition, with that tradition’s emphasis upon ...