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Anthem
Title: Anthem
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 453 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Anthem
In Ayn Rand’s book, Anthem, Egoism played an extremely big part but wasn’t revealed until the end of the book. Ego means "lacking in ones own interests" meaning that you don’t do what you like to do and don’t have your own feelings. During the book everyone who was living in the society was lacking an ego. When people lack egos they don’t have their own personalities and they act …showed first 75 words of 453 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 453 total…that it is much better eating away from society when he says "And we thought suddenly that there was great satisfaction to be found in the food which we need and obtain by our own hand."(Rand 89). In the end Equality realizes what has been lacking in society when he says "The sacred word: EGO."(Rand 123) In order to greater society and to part from these times everyone must have an ego of their own.
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