The Ayn Rand Institute has an annual essay contest for 8th, 9th and 10th graders on Rand's novel Anthem. The winner gets $2,000 but 235 runner ups will receive some level of cash award.
Select ONE of the following three topics:
Why do you think the Council of Vocations assigns Equality the job of Street Sweeper? Is it due to error, incompetence or a more sinister motivation? Explain.
The old locks and lack of guards in the Palace of Corrective Detention indicate that prisoners never try to escape. Why do you think they do not? Explain.
In a single, unified essay, explain the meaning and wider significance of EACH of the following quotes in the story:
- “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.” (Ch. 12)
- “It is the mind which thinks, and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth.” (Ch. 11)
- “And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being.” (Ch. 8)
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