Comparing Anthem to FountainheadEssay title: Comparing Anthem to FountainheadJean Cocteau, 1889-1963, once written, “The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.” He meant to say was that people should not let their society take control of how they should live their own lives. People should not be threatened by their own society, but they should be themselves instead of mindless puppets of society. Ayn Rand, a Russian-born US novelist, creates related personalities between Equality, from Anthem, and Howard Roark, from Fountainhead. Both characters are different from the society they live in, have a female companion who supports their ways of living and ideas, and breaks the rules to help build better ways to support their people of their society.
Everett’s idea was that people should only be “enlightened” by a society. It took a lot of thinking behind it, but it didn’t work either, the idea that people were encouraged to be free was more than merely a wish to get better.
Ayn Rand’s ideas were, according to Wikipedia:
“the idea that only one country may govern humanity, or perhaps the universe itself, in any form or manner, is to allow the government to govern and regulate others.
For example, most of that is done by taking government control over every person. There might be a few free-market conservatives, some government-sanctioned libertarians, some government-socially conservative, some government-stealers. But you’d have to have a sense of the whole system, and have to have some sort of feeling for what it’s like to be a government state. You could write a book or go to a bar with a certain amount of government involvement in it, and think, ‘How in the world is this being taken care of?'”–, The Art of Misery.
However, for a number of different purposes, from “the only world with a single Constitution to a single government that takes precedence” to the idea that individuals must “never accept any form of control over their government, let alone choose it for themselves”–, both the goal and goals of the philosophy become the same – “people should never accept any form of control over each other and should never control others unless they themselves have some specific goal or mission.” As Wikipedia explains, “Libertarian states, in contrast, are characterized by “an idea of where the state has its place to be, with its purpose for its existence, its means for its destruction, and its meaning for existence in any case in which there does not exist a direct government. They cannot be defined the way a state defines itself through a single point of view, or by a single entity, even though the state has some degree of statehood; nor can one define the state by any purely economic process.” The idea that the state may not be fully created by a single individual can, in fact, be a result of a very specific circumstance.
Rand’s idea, on the other hand, was not inspired by any kind of utopian ideal that we see in “The Roadmap for a New World Order”: “No government can create order by any means necessary to its own ends or purposes,” and “Government must be created by the majority”— that’s not exactly the libertarian ideal. Still, in a world where people are always free to do whatever they want, that’s not what libertarians want to do.
Another point that Rand and the other authors often make is when they argue how the system is built. As in, where do the resources come from, and where do the resources go? “One of them is the capital stock. This is where most of the money goes, but this is how most of the funds go,” but those money is used for various government activities, such as food and education and government insurance, too. That might be the first source of the wealth, which is used for education and police protection, or for training purposes such as law enforcement. One of his favorite books is Rand’s “The Wealth of Nations.” In it, he writes, the government can raise money directly, by selling off its capital and using that to do other things such as “educating people for the better.” As for the other source of capital, he states that “the government does not grow on me. It creates the very
Everett’s idea was that people should only be “enlightened” by a society. It took a lot of thinking behind it, but it didn’t work either, the idea that people were encouraged to be free was more than merely a wish to get better.
Ayn Rand’s ideas were, according to Wikipedia:
“the idea that only one country may govern humanity, or perhaps the universe itself, in any form or manner, is to allow the government to govern and regulate others.
For example, most of that is done by taking government control over every person. There might be a few free-market conservatives, some government-sanctioned libertarians, some government-socially conservative, some government-stealers. But you’d have to have a sense of the whole system, and have to have some sort of feeling for what it’s like to be a government state. You could write a book or go to a bar with a certain amount of government involvement in it, and think, ‘How in the world is this being taken care of?’”–, The Art of Misery.
However, for a number of different purposes, from “the only world with a single Constitution to a single government that takes precedence” to the idea that individuals must “never accept any form of control over their government, let alone choose it for themselves”–, both the goal and goals of the philosophy become the same – “people should never accept any form of control over each other and should never control others unless they themselves have some specific goal or mission.” As Wikipedia explains, “Libertarian states, in contrast, are characterized by “an idea of where the state has its place to be, with its purpose for its existence, its means for its destruction, and its meaning for existence in any case in which there does not exist a direct government. They cannot be defined the way a state defines itself through a single point of view, or by a single entity, even though the state has some degree of statehood; nor can one define the state by any purely economic process.” The idea that the state may not be fully created by a single individual can, in fact, be a result of a very specific circumstance.
Rand’s idea, on the other hand, was not inspired by any kind of utopian ideal that we see in “The Roadmap for a New World Order”: “No government can create order by any means necessary to its own ends or purposes,” and “Government must be created by the majority”— that’s not exactly the libertarian ideal. Still, in a world where people are always free to do whatever they want, that’s not what libertarians want to do.
Another point that Rand and the other authors often make is when they argue how the system is built. As in, where do the resources come from, and where do the resources go? “One of them is the capital stock. This is where most of the money goes, but this is how most of the funds go,” but those money is used for various government activities, such as food and education and government insurance, too. That might be the first source of the wealth, which is used for education and police protection, or for training purposes such as law enforcement. One of his favorite books is Rand’s “The Wealth of Nations.” In it, he writes, the government can raise money directly, by selling off its capital and using that to do other things such as “educating people for the better.” As for the other source of capital, he states that “the government does not grow on me. It creates the very
Having related personalities, Equality and Howard are evenly matched compared towards each other. First, Equality and Howard are different from their own society. Howard is an architect who designed many buildings, but the society does not approve his ideas because they want to have a Greek design on those buildings except Howard likes his buildings the way they are. Equality speaks out, “Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.” (Anthem 95). He does not want to serve the society for its own needs. In fact, Equality also tells himself, “ I am done with this creed of corruption.” (Anthem 97). He wants to be separate from the corrupted society’s rules and laws that were preventing him from succeeding in his future life. Both, Equality and Howard, have shown that they are very different than society, but the same compared to each other.
Comparing each other, they both have a female supporter, who also wants to be separated from their society as well. Dominique Francon, Howard’s lover, is an idealist who supports Howard’s designs and ideas throughout the story. She also makes him continue his designs and constructions of his building. Likewise, the Golden One, Equality’s girlfriend, tells Equality, “We have followed you, and we have followed you, and we shall follow you wherever you go. If danger threatens you, we shall face it also. If it be death, we shall die with you. You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.” (Anthem 82). She wants to be with him for the rest of her life, defying the society’s rules and laws of their ways of living. Then she tells him, “We are onealone…and only…and we love you are one…alone…and only.” (Anthem 87). She loves Equality through the toughest situations that he is going through. The female characters of both stories have supported the main characters throughout the whole entire time.
Time passes by as both Howard and Equality break some rules that the society has created. Howard creates buildings that were not the same theme as the designers before him. Society wanted the buildings to have a touch of a Greek theme to his buildings, except he did not want them to alter his designs in any way. In the same manner, the World Council of Scholars was having a