Sunday, December 17, 2006

Anthem, a very short, yet thought provoking novel was the last one read by me. The Anthem is composed of thoughts from Ayn Rand. She speaks of a man who broke all laws of the land he lived in, a land of collective thoughts where he aspires to be of his own… The man goes about exploring nature and things that give him much pleasure than working for a collective society as a street sweeper. He meets his woman in his very own same land of collective thoughts. He flees to exercise his freedom and his woman ‘The Golden One’ follows him. Rand emphasizes on the importance of the feeling of ‘I, Me Myself’. People would call this as selfishness but without exercising this feeling, a human being would be just a boring person, not the one who would stand apart from the crowd.

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