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Ayn Rand Biography Books Facts

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Rand, Ayn (1905-1982), American novelist and philosopher, whose championing of the gifted individual established her as a controversial figure in 20th-century literary and philosophical debate. […]

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Introduction

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The final novel written by Russian-born American philosopher and author Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged is a controversial and widely popular work. According to a 1991 […]

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Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand, a.k.a. Alice Rosenbaum, was born on February 2, 1905, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her family was relatively wealthy; Rand’s father was a self-made […]

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Plot Summary

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A Part 1: Non-Contradiction Atlas Shrugged opens in a devastated New York City with crumbling buildings, empty stores, and closed businesses. It is a vision […]

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Characters

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A Hugh Akston A famous philosopher, “the last advocate of reason” and a renowned teacher at the Patrick Henry University; John Galt, Francisco d’Anconia, and […]

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Themes

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A Individual vs. Society The very title of Atlas Shrugged illustrates the rebellion of one person against the system. It evokes the image of the […]

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Construction

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A Point of View In Atlas Shrugged, Rand efficiently uses a third-person narrative that most often comes from the limited omniscient perspective of one of […]

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Historical Perspective

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A The Red Scare Atlas Shrugged, although clearly set in the imaginary communist equivalent of the United States, lacks orientation in time. As Ronald E. […]

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Questions

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Rand was the originator of Objectivist philosophy, embodied in Atlas Shrugged. Did Objectivism ever gain acceptance in mainstream philosophy? Why or why not? Compare and […]

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Compare and Contrast

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1950s: Mao Zedong starts the Great Leap Forward in the People’s Republic of China, placing more than half a billion peasants into “people communes.” They […]