Explaining the Evolution of Ayn Rand’ Ideas Through the Second World War
Abstract
As technological advancements update with each passing day, the employment of social medias in aiding people to obtain insights upon city news and historical events has become increasingly dominant. However, even though the employment of books in learning about social phenomenon within a specific time era has been gradually replaced by the Internet, literary novels have been consistently serving as an effective way to understand social phenomenon through lines of words. In this work, the paper first introduces how Ayn Rand’s life shaped her perseverance in prompting individualism. Such thoughts pervaded into her two novels which are Anthem and The Fountainhead and by comparing the storyline, it has come to a conclusion that Rand’s engagement in the Second World War had changed her standpoint: the traitors of their collectivism birthplace are unable to separate his entity from his community and ought to confront the problems in reality. Such finding can break some scholars’ stereotypes in claiming Ayn Rand’s philosophical ideas has not changed at all over the course of time.
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