Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand’s “Objectivism” emphasizes individual achievement and rejection of responsibility to others, a philosophy that aligns rather well with the ideas of many of today’s emerging adults, as described by Christian Smith, but would certainly face significant scrutiny by Robert Bellah for its near-anarchism. While Rand’s proposals are somewhat radical in comparison with modern American society, the similar views of today’s youth may indicate an imminent change, or in the least emphasize the…

“Those books you read. Common Sense, Atlas Shrugged, all of them?” “Yeah?” “I had their contents stored in my brain when I was born. Every word of every book has been in my memory since I can remember. That’s how I knew they even existed. And also the location where the Mother Country stashed them. When I was fourteen, I broke open the storage unit containing them, and stole every single last one of them. The Unite was furious, but never made the heist public knowledge, and they never found out…

Atlas Shrugged is a really odd novel that takes place in a dystopian United States somewhere in the future. The book gives off a very negative feel as though nothing in the world is quite right. Businesses have closed; men are out of work it’s as if the great depression has hit all over again. In fact other countries have turned into Socialist states causing them to go bankrupt; all the talented men in the world have started to disappear as well for an unexplained reason. The main character of…

Atlas Shrugged is centered around several key protagonists and antagonists. Dagny Taggart is the hero of the novel. She is the productive Vice President of Operations at Taggart Transcontinental, a railroad empire. Incompetence and excuses are all around her, but she keeps her head down and works hard, spending most of her time cleaning up the messes of others. Specifically, her brother James. Although she had worked for the railroad since she was a teenager, James inherited the business. He…

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…

The message of Francisco’s speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is that money is good, it symbolizes all of the goods and services the people produce, and it is a tool of exchange in which the people give it value. To begin with, Francisco believes money is good. He states “money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more”. Money is good because it allows the people to get goods and also receive money from the goods they…

By definition, “public good” is a commodity that is provided without benefit to ALL members of a society either by government, a private individual, or an organization. Hank Rearden proudly states, “The public good be damned. I will have no part of it!” (445) Thit profound statement brought the courtroom to an uproar of cheer and applause, leaving Hank just as startled as the three judges before him. His statement was bold, yet it set him apart from a great number of business men such as,…

In the movie Atlas Shrugged the government has taken control of all thing and as stopped all factors of production unless they say that it can go and be made but there is a place in which the major producers are going so that they could have a pure capitalism economy. But in reality a pure capitalism society would not be has good as it seems in the movie and here's the facts to prove it. The pure capitalism economic system is the best system out there because people would be able to make as…

humanistic approach called objectivism. The Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged are the two famous novels that formed a separate understanding of humanism, the stories comprehend protagonists that deals with the modern upbringing of the capitalistic environment. Atlas Shrugged was the last novel written by Ayn Rand, the novel holds an extensive story divided into three parts. Often referred as Rand’s magnum opus (most important work), Atlas Shrugged brought out a clear concept of objectivism…

every single movement, but I managed to keep myself calm by improvising, when I felt that I had nothing to discuss about. In addition, what helped me throughout my speech was to elaborate on the current book that I was reading, which was called “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, and what also assisted me was to move around, so that I could avoid the fight or flight response. Nevertheless, I acknowledge that I may possibly have incorporated filler words at the time, seeing that I did not realize that…