Definitions
The society in which every individual belongs. There are no individual beliefs or ideas in this society.
What is Collectivism?
The year in which Ayn Rand's Anthem was finally published in the United Kingdom
What is 1938?
The independent and curious protagonist.
Who is Equality 7-2521?
Setting throughout most of the first two chapters.
What is the Unnamed city?
Where the makers of candles live.
What is the House of the Candle-Makers?
The period of time before the current society in Anthem.
What are The Unmentionable Times?
First head of government of Soviet Russia, regime influenced Ayn Rand's writing of Anthem.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The curious and independent possible love interest to the protagonist.
Who is Liberty 5-3000?
Main internal conflict of Equality 7-2521.
What is individualism?
Where the wisest of the city are sent to live.
What is the House of the Scholars?
The 'correct' pronoun to use when referring to a person. + The forbidden pronoun to use when referring to yourself.
What is We, I?
Who is Leonard E. Read?
The joyful and creative friend to the protagonist.
Who is International 4-8810?
Insurrection that has had groundwork laid down for it ever since the first paragraph of the first chapter.
What is a rebellion against collectivism?
Ayn Rand's next novel after Anthem. Published in 1943.
What is The Fountainhead?
Wilderness that laws of the city prohibit entering.
What is The Uncharted Forest?
Raw, pure, or unrestrained capitalism, capitalism free of any regulations, with low or minimal or no government interference and operating entirely on the profit motive.
What is a Laissez-faire economic system?
A martyr burned at the stake for speaking individually.
Who is the Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word?
What are individual beliefs, thoughts, and inventions?
Movement that states the following: Reality exists independently of consciousness.
What is the Objectivist Movement?
A philosophical system named and developed after Ayn Rand.
What is Objectivism?
Ayn Rand's greatest influence. German philosopher born in 1844.
Who is Friedrich Nietszsche?
A bright youth, with no fear in the day.
Who is Solidarity 9-6347?
Equality 7-2521's transgression for making a friend of International 4-8810.
What is the transgression of preference?
Ayn Rand's Alma mater.
What is Leningrad State University?