Anthem: The Process of Liberation :: Anthem Essays

Anthem  The demonstrate of Liberation     Many years ago, I read my basic mass by Ayn Rand, Anthem. I completed the moderate in about tetrad hours. At the time, I was not mature enough to fully take account Anthems powerful symbolism. My attitude as I read the beginning of the tidings was one of indifference and confusion, maturing only later into concern and vigorous interest. This sire began a new phase in my intellectual development that concisely led me to read Atlas Shrugged. I then started on Ayn Rands non-fictional works. My brain of Rands philosophical system, however, came piece by piece. on that point was no one endorsement of recognition, no single aha. Until recently, I was not fully aware that I had been affected so deeply. My progress was step-by-step and I had never looked on the whole the way back. As I began to read Anthem for a morsel time, I found myself in acute pain, even at the first paragraph. I continued to read it feeling much as a person would when touring a concentration camp, for, in effect, that was exactly what I was doing. There was not one hint of levity in my mood I do not even rec exclusively breathing. I was truly looking all the way back. At the end of chapter nine, when Equality 7-2521 is alone, in the most heavy sense of the word, with his Golden One, she shows slowly, We are one ... alone ... and only ... and we approve you who are one ... alone ... and only, I feared I could tolerate the book no longer. I had finally understood that profound sense of retirement and despair a person can feel when they want to say I love you, but cannot say I. I could not ensure how my previous reading could have seemed so easy. I proceeded, at a forced march, all the way to chapter eleven. I had never experienced the theory of labored reading before. When I read the words, I am, I completed that I had become Equality 7-2521 and that his