There has been many philosophies and ideas of how men can coexist harmoniously with equal resources, economic means, and political status, as in our fantasized world of Utopia. However, when those “ideas” are endeavored, why does the guinea pig dissolve into chaos that results into nothingness? In the novel, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand takes the readers into a dystopian United States and explores the central stations of Objectivism into its third-dimension. Well, what is objectivism? Objectivism is a philosophical system whereby inductive logic is the way to attain objective knowledge and people seek individualism, work with a hand-off policy from the government, and search one’s own pleasure for that is the purpose of life. Rand uses the symbolic phrase, “Who is John Galt?” to began the novel and elites the readers as well her own characters in the novel to investigate the labyrinthine meaning of the phrase throughout the book. So, the simple question is, “Who is John Galt?”
In Atlas Shrugged, United States’ government approaches the idea of, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” in the concept of egalitarianism, therefore seizing all the important monopolies in the economy and attempting to “equalize” the financial status and living conditions of people in different hierarchies. Dagny Taggart: vice president of Transcontinental Railroad; Hank Rearden: metal producer; Francisco d’ Anconia: distributer of copper—these are all ambitious people working in crucial stations of the economy. They envision a world so far from the world they reside in, yet they continue to work and produce despite people’s greed. However, as the government becomes more corrupt and the laissez-faire capitalism becomes obsolete, many of the brains of America disappears and self-destruct in the public’s eyes to fight against the State’s immoral course. Only after the country is buried fully in its guilt, and the government is diminished by its failure, will the workingmen of America return and restore America’s prosperity in sync with the tenets of objectivism. Again, “Who is John Galt?” Some characters use this phrase as if it is a symbol of despair and obscurity. “I don 't know what it is that 's happening to the world." He shrugged. "Oh well, who is John Galt?"(48). "I don 't know . . . I don 't know what is right any more . . . How can we ever know? Oh well, who is John Galt?"(117). People uses this as an answer to things that are undefined, too philosophical or too complex, yet the phrase contains some sort of hidden justification. Others trace this definition back to distinctive legends. "John Galt was a millionaire, a man of inestimable wealth. He was sailing his yacht one night, in mid-Atlantic, fighting the worst storm ever wreaked upon the world, when he found it. He saw it in the depth, where it had sunk to escape the reach of men. He saw the towers of Atlantis shining on the bottom of the ocean. It was a sight of such kind that when one had seen it, one could no longer wish to look at the rest of the earth. John Galt sank his ship and went down with his entire crew," says a lady in an attempt to draw attention from the party crowd (118). Accordingly, John Galt is assumed to be a homicidal explorer who sank his ship in order to reach Atlantis. Another one states, "John Galt spent years looking for it. He crossed oceans, and he crossed deserts, and he went down into forgotten mines, miles under the earth. But he found it on the top of a mountain. It took him ten years to …show more content…
He convinces Francisco d Anconia and Hank Rearden, and others, however, Dagny Taggart refuses to join the strike because she wants to moralize the world without forsaking it to its destruction. While developing his valley, John also works as an insignificant worker under the Transcontinental Railroad waiting for his love, Dagny Taggart, who is struggling away with worldly worries for the looters, to join him in the strike. For twelve years, he perseveres and works at such low position to remove the world’s victims of
In Atlas Shrugged, United States’ government approaches the idea of, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” in the concept of egalitarianism, therefore seizing all the important monopolies in the economy and attempting to “equalize” the financial status and living conditions of people in different hierarchies. Dagny Taggart: vice president of Transcontinental Railroad; Hank Rearden: metal producer; Francisco d’ Anconia: distributer of copper—these are all ambitious people working in crucial stations of the economy. They envision a world so far from the world they reside in, yet they continue to work and produce despite people’s greed. However, as the government becomes more corrupt and the laissez-faire capitalism becomes obsolete, many of the brains of America disappears and self-destruct in the public’s eyes to fight against the State’s immoral course. Only after the country is buried fully in its guilt, and the government is diminished by its failure, will the workingmen of America return and restore America’s prosperity in sync with the tenets of objectivism. Again, “Who is John Galt?” Some characters use this phrase as if it is a symbol of despair and obscurity. “I don 't know what it is that 's happening to the world." He shrugged. "Oh well, who is John Galt?"(48). "I don 't know . . . I don 't know what is right any more . . . How can we ever know? Oh well, who is John Galt?"(117). People uses this as an answer to things that are undefined, too philosophical or too complex, yet the phrase contains some sort of hidden justification. Others trace this definition back to distinctive legends. "John Galt was a millionaire, a man of inestimable wealth. He was sailing his yacht one night, in mid-Atlantic, fighting the worst storm ever wreaked upon the world, when he found it. He saw it in the depth, where it had sunk to escape the reach of men. He saw the towers of Atlantis shining on the bottom of the ocean. It was a sight of such kind that when one had seen it, one could no longer wish to look at the rest of the earth. John Galt sank his ship and went down with his entire crew," says a lady in an attempt to draw attention from the party crowd (118). Accordingly, John Galt is assumed to be a homicidal explorer who sank his ship in order to reach Atlantis. Another one states, "John Galt spent years looking for it. He crossed oceans, and he crossed deserts, and he went down into forgotten mines, miles under the earth. But he found it on the top of a mountain. It took him ten years to …show more content…
He convinces Francisco d Anconia and Hank Rearden, and others, however, Dagny Taggart refuses to join the strike because she wants to moralize the world without forsaking it to its destruction. While developing his valley, John also works as an insignificant worker under the Transcontinental Railroad waiting for his love, Dagny Taggart, who is struggling away with worldly worries for the looters, to join him in the strike. For twelve years, he perseveres and works at such low position to remove the world’s victims of