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Essay Galaxy - Biting The Apple
In the introduction to Anthem, Leonard Peikoff states, "She was claiming for man and his ego the sacred respect that is actually due not to Heaven, but ot life on earth. An anthem to the ego is blasphemy to the pious, because it implies that reverence pertains not to God, but to man, and above all, to that fundamental and inherently selfish thing within him that enables him to deal with reality and survive." This passage means that Anthem's use of biblical symbolism really intends to mock religion. In Ayn Rand's Anthem, Prometheus and Gaea's expulsion from society mirrors the banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The bible tells the story of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman on earth. God makes Adam and Eve in his likeness and gives them only one commandment: "You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good ....
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