What does money mean to you? Money is not simply money. Money represents power, love, joy, and much more. If it was just money, our "money problems" would be easily solved. People don’t want to be rich so they can buy stuff, it’s so they can have power over others. They want influence and respect and they perceive that those with money have influence and respect, therefor they seek money out for the power they desire to have. The representation of money in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” concisely captures the ultimate evil, in conflict with the ultimate good. To the heroes money has important and precise meaning, while to the villains money has no particular meaning that they can or are willing to envision.
One of the first things noticed in Atlas Shrugged is that you can tell good and bad people apart at a glance. All the villains, the “looters,” are overweight, sweaty, and have receding hairlines, sagging jowls and floppy limbs. While her industrialist heroes are representations of strong purpose, with sharp chins and angular features. The heroes are characterized by “the wealth of …show more content…
However, he isn’t your typical villain, he often seems to be out of control and oblivious, or at least in denial, about what it is he's doing. His objective in life, which controls his actions even when he doesn't know it, is to damage and destroy the men of the mind. He seeks destruction of the good, and this characteristic controls all parts of his life. He lies to himself continuously, trying to persuade himself that he seeks to achieve wealth, to defend the interests of his railroad, to help "friends.” The reality is that Taggart doesn't value wealth, life, the railroad, or success. He wants the good to have no chance to survive, this is why during a meeting Taggart involuntarily screams, "If we are to perish, let's make sure that we all perish together. Let's make sure that we leave them no chance to
One of the first things noticed in Atlas Shrugged is that you can tell good and bad people apart at a glance. All the villains, the “looters,” are overweight, sweaty, and have receding hairlines, sagging jowls and floppy limbs. While her industrialist heroes are representations of strong purpose, with sharp chins and angular features. The heroes are characterized by “the wealth of …show more content…
However, he isn’t your typical villain, he often seems to be out of control and oblivious, or at least in denial, about what it is he's doing. His objective in life, which controls his actions even when he doesn't know it, is to damage and destroy the men of the mind. He seeks destruction of the good, and this characteristic controls all parts of his life. He lies to himself continuously, trying to persuade himself that he seeks to achieve wealth, to defend the interests of his railroad, to help "friends.” The reality is that Taggart doesn't value wealth, life, the railroad, or success. He wants the good to have no chance to survive, this is why during a meeting Taggart involuntarily screams, "If we are to perish, let's make sure that we all perish together. Let's make sure that we leave them no chance to