Ayn Rand's Anthem: Suppression Of Individuality

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A Collective Dictatorship: Suppression of Individuality
In 1938, Ayn Rand, a philosophical, Russian-American novelist wrote the novella Anthem. In the same period, the United States was at war with Russia. Russia, then, became a communistic society. Anthem dives into a collective dictatorship world and partakes in a non-individualistic society. The collectivism dictatorship the community is governed by, suppresses individualism in the city. This new form of government reigns throughout the metropolitan and brings despair along with it.
In the work Anthem, people in the district are segregated into groups and given names. These citizens are treated like robots, void of differential vocabulary. Civilians in this community do not know about the
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