Antagonist: The totalitarian authorities of the City.Īyn Rand wrote Anthem in 1937 while taking a break from the research and writing of her next novel The Fountainhead.Climax: Equality 7-2521 escapes the city after the World Council of Scholars threatens to punish him for making a discovery.Setting: A dystopian city in an unspecified future date when humanity has destroyed all innovations and reverted back to the dark ages in a totalitarian dictatorship.Genre: Science-Fiction Dystopian Novella.Publication year: First Published 1938, Revised Edition Published 1946.In this dystopian city emerges a rebellious young man called Equality 7-2521 who rediscovers the inventions of the lost era and risks his life to escape from the city. Anthem depicts a dystopia of the complete elimination of individualism where the state controls the citizens in all aspects of their being and even the word “I” is eliminated from the language.
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