![]() But while Cassell published the manuscript, Macmillan rejected it, saying that the novella showed that Rand did not have a true understanding of Socialism. ![]() Rand simultaneously submitted the manuscripts of Anthem to two publishers who had worked on her first novel We the Living-– Macmillan Publishers in the USA, and Cassell Publishers in England. She had planned to release Anthem as a serial or magazine story but was advised by her agent to publish it as a book instead. Antagonist: The totalitarian authorities of the City.Īyn Rand wrote Anthem in 1937 while taking a break from the research and writing of her next novel The Fountainhead.Climax: Equality 7-2521 escapes the city after the World Council of Scholars threatens to punish him for making a discovery.Setting: A dystopian city in an unspecified future date when humanity has destroyed all innovations and reverted back to the dark ages in a totalitarian dictatorship.Genre: Science-Fiction Dystopian Novella. ![]() Publication year: First Published 1938, Revised Edition Published 1946. ![]() In this dystopian city emerges a rebellious young man called Equality 7-2521 who rediscovers the inventions of the lost era and risks his life to escape from the city. Anthem depicts a dystopia of the complete elimination of individualism where the state controls the citizens in all aspects of their being and even the word “I” is eliminated from the language. ![]()
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