CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUALISM IN AYN RAND’S ANTHEM

Ayn Rand, Russian American writer came to the world when Russian Revolution was
in its peak. She personally experienced the atrocity of communism in action. So she
fled to America, as she found it to be the freest country. But she was shocked when
the Communist, Fascist and Nazis ideals became very popular in America. So, in her
novels the process of collectivization is portrayed successfully at a deeper level i.e.
political, economical and social. Ayn Rand, through her novella Anthem has brought
an awakening sense about the horrors of collectivism. This paper makes an attempt
to show the philosophical convictions of Ayn Rand with special reference to her
novella Anthem.