Talk:Anthem (novella)
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[edit] Communist society
Deleted some stupid editorializing about how Ayn Rand couldn't "bear" the idea of a communist society progressing and that's why Anthem takes place in a regressive state. Kade 04:14, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Good. One may want to replace it with 'wouldn't expect a communist society to progress...' or some thing along those lines. D prime 05:07, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Actually I believe she indeed couldn't bear the idea of a Communist society progressing. I don't know how she dealt with the Soviet space successes in the 50s and 60s. It certainly fits with what I know of Ayn Rand.
I heavily edited the intro for POV. It was pretty much a back cover blurb, melodramatic, and blatantly POV.
"He is the only individual left, as everyone else in his society has surrendered their life to the state"
Sounds like the caption on a movie poster.
[edit] Anthem and "We"
I took out a line that said "some have claimed"... that Rand may have plagarized because, like the rest of the article, it is written in passive voice (WHO is making this claim?) and is not attributed to any source. capitalist
- It seems to be back...so I took it out again. Get a source! Besides, readers can conclude, if they wish, that Anthem was plagarized thanks to the list of similarities and differences. --zenohockey 17:21, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] 2112
I changed the trivia section to '2112', because that was the only fact in it. I also expanded it a lot. I remember hearing some where that she said that she didn't like rock music. However, I can only directly reference a record of her saying that she doesn't like Elvis. Does any one think that it would be neccessary to take the reference to Rock Music in general out? I thought that it was neccessary comment.D prime 05:16, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Equality 7-2521
I renamed Prometheus to his given name, Equality 7-2521, for most of the synopsis, since he only takes the name Prometheus at the very end. I also added the names of his colleagues: International 4-8818 and Union 5-3992. --Kitch 17:06, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
On the subject of names, I changed the chosen name of Liberty 5-3000 to 'Gaea' from 'Gaia' to more accurately reflect the book.
[edit] Science
Did anyone else find Rand's concepts of science and technology a bit alien? I don't believe that Edison deserves as much credit as he usually gets for driving the sweatshop workers that developed the lightbulb for him, but it's a well-established fact that it took a very large operation to pick through all the possibilities and get it right. Not to mention all the publishing that had to happen before chemistry became more than just "mixing strange acids". Science is a way of communicating as much as it's a field of activity. I'm tempted to put some of this in the article, but I'd have to change the tone quite a bit to make it appropriate, if that's even possible.--Joel 00:53, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Edit Request
The following line in the article did not make sense to me:
The only wat that the book anthem actuly was reconised by teachers is because its ablity to be used in diffrent ways that the teacher can make up.
Perhaps someone who knows more about the article can delete it or edit it. Danras 04:17, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Publication Date?
In this article it says that Anthem was first published in 1938, but then later in the article it says: "Rand boasted that she had beaten both Orwell and Huxley into print with Anthem." After that it says it was first published in english in 1937. However, in the article for Brave New World it states that novel was first published in 1932, which seems to disagree with Anthem having beaten it into print. What's correct? --208.192.70.129 04:12, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 272 pages?
I have a small page, big text version of the book, and the book itself is only 87 pages.
I can clear this up, the novella itself is less than a hundred pages in most editions, however recently, a large two hundred some page edition has been published using the simple trick of adding Ayn Rand's "Real, original notes!" on the story. Since these notes take the form of a lightly editied copy of the text of the novella this effectively doubles the size of the work and allows them to sell it for actual paperback book prices. --Literary Fraud Artist
