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48 Cards in this Set
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egoism
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"The only things which taught us joy were the power we created in the wires and the Golden Ond. And both these joys belong to us alone..." Rand 97
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Individualism
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"I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being, and no word of sanctions upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction." Rand 109
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Altruism
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"If you are not needed by your brother men, there is not reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies" (Rand 18)
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Collectivism
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"We are one una ll and all in one. There are not men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever" (Rand 14)
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Independence
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" We forget all men, all laws and all things save our metals and wires. So much is still to be learned! So long a road lies before us, and what care if we must travel it alone." (Rand 56)
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Anthem is an allegory because
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It is fictionalized, it presents a philosophical idea, the characters within the text are symbolic
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Anthem is not a
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work which promotes Socialism
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Ayn Rand's view of ego
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an appropriate pride in one's self
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Not a reflection of Rand's belief system
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Humanity is inevitably doomed to social failure and moral collapse
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Most evil word in language
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WE
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sacred word
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Ego
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names given the narrator
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Equality 7-2521, The Unconquered, Promethius
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the narrator meets The Golden One
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in a field
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the narrator kills the bird in the Unchareted Forest with a
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rock
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the word learned by reading books left in the house from Unmentionable Times
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I
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Promethius
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a man who took light from the
Gods and brought it to mankind |
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Gaea
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The mother of the earth and all the Gods
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narrator is a disciple of
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The Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word
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"...all men are one and there is no will save the will of all men together"
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The Great Truth
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The great Transgression and the root of all evil
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Being alone
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At the end, the narrator does not plan to
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harm Collective 0-0009
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the narrator discovers electricity
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when he dissects a frog and hangs it on a copper wire. It moves
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" a close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests"
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alliance
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the narrator decides to break out of the Palace of Corrective Detention because
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The World Council is meeting and he feels compelled to show his invention to them
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the Council's response to the narrator's invention
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they wanted to destroy it because it was not invented by the socially designated inventors
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At the end
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Gaea is pregnant
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the "body of all truth"
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The World Council
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I one says the "unspeakable word"
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the transgressor is put to death
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what caused the white flame
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sunlight
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When does the Golden One come to the Uncharted Forest?
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2 days after the narrator fled there
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portals
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entrance
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transgression
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sin
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froths
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foams
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mandate
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law/orders
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impotence
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weakness, inability
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lassitude
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weariness, exhaustion
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sage
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wise person
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shackled
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chained
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taut
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tight
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Author of Anthem
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Ayn Rand
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dais
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platform of a celebrity
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original vocation of narrator
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scholar
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narrator escaped the Council of Scholars by
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putting fist through the window
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narrator called his invention
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glass box
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40 year old man in Anthem's society was sent
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to the Home of the Useless
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same value as another
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equality
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Anthem's time period
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the future
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Age when one could leave the Home of the Students
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15
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