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Anthem Author & Background Information

Anthem Author & Background Information. Anthem: Ayn Rand. The Author: Ayn Rand. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in February 1905 She lived during the Russian Civil War & the Bolshevik Revolution; these gave way to the Communist era in Russia

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Anthem Author & Background Information

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  1. Anthem Author & Background Information Anthem: Ayn Rand

  2. The Author: Ayn Rand • Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in February 1905 • She lived during the Russian Civil War & the Bolshevik Revolution; these gave way to the Communist era in Russia • Her family lost its business & lived in extreme poverty • She majored in Philosophy & History in College & studied screen-writing at Cinema Arts • When Stalin ascended to power in the 1920’s, she escaped to Chicago in 1926 • She then moved to Hollywood to become a screen-writer

  3. The Author: Ayn Rand • She married the actor Frank O’Conor • She wrote a screen play called Red Pawn, a play Night of January 16th, and then her first novel We the Living (1933) • Anthem was published in Great Britain in 1938, she later revised the novella and, in 1946, published it in the United States • She is best known for The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957)

  4. Communist Russia • Stalin was the leader of the USSR & he improved the country's economic status • Stalin also ordered purges (execution) of all those who opposed him, especially independent thinkers & intellectuals • Millions of people were killed including government officials, military & common people • There were also forced labor camps and collective farms, causing many people to die from starvation • 1879-1973

  5. Anthem: Themes & Ideas • Theory of Objectivism, or ego-ism, the idea that an individuals worth comes from him or herself (not what they contribute to society) • The novel is written as an allegory, a fictional story whose purpose is to present a fictional idea • Ayn describes a Dystopia in the novel, an imaginary world through which Ayn shows the negatives of Collectivism

  6. To Know, before you read… • The novel is written using the word “We” because people were not allowed to use the word “I”, they were a collective society & not an individual one • The novel is written in the future and people can barely remember/know what life was like (life as society now). Imagine that everything has been wiped out & society is starting from scratch even though it is the future

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