Introduction This paper looks into two central characters in Ayn Rand’s fiction novel Atlas Shrugged, Hank Rearden and Francisco D’Anconia. As this paper points out, both characters are brilliant, driven and at one time were leaders in the same industry – metal. But, as the paper...
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Atlas Shrugged is a great novel. Ayn Rand presents a lot of ideas; egotism that people live for their own needs, industrialism that government should not disturb the economics and hinder the innovation, and objectivism that reason relies on fact and so on. There are too many points worthily...
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My favorite scene from the captivating Ayn Rand novel, “Atlas Shrugged”, would have to be when Mr. Hank Rearden, at his trial, declared “The public good be damned, I will have no part of it! ” Mr. Rearden’s initial indictment is selling four thousand tons of his metal...
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One of the most well known idioms is 'every man for himself'. The literal meaning of this idiom is everyone should do what is best for themselves, without any reservations, or concerns for other people. The legendary character Robin Hood and the Ragnar Danneskjold, the pirate in Atlas...
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Dagny Taggart The novel's protagonist and a buisness woman and engineer who is the backbone of Taggart Transcontinental. As James Taggart's little sister, she is often belittled but gains respect and she hurdles all obstacles that come to face her family's company which includes taking...
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Atlas Shrugged Analysis of Dagny Taggart [trx_quote title="Ayn Rand" top="inherit" bottom="inherit" left="inherit" right="inherit"]"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. "[/trx_quote] Dagny Taggart separates...
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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists...
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is truly a revolutionary work. It is based on her memories of poverty, repression, and tyranny experienced in the USSR. The ideology of communism trampled on universal human values, replacing them with the principles of gregariousness and collectivism. That is why it was...
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