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Anthem:discuss and Explain Three Important Qoutes
Summary: In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Prometheus is a man who must overcome his collective society to find himself. He rejects the world and its values and categorizes happiness as relative. His conflict is in identifying "self".
In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Prometheus is a man who must overcome his collective society to find himself. Prometheus is born into a society where everything is equal. Without concern for consequences, he loves a woman and looks and discovers knowledge of the past. After his discovery is rejected he flees to the forest, and his lover follows. In the forest is where he finds the meaning of the word I. There is where he says .".. we crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost in the gray of it," he talks about what his society did to the differences of man, after he had run away. After Prometheus finds the house he says, " My happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end," which means...
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