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(refers to the greek god “atlas” refusing to support the ‘earth’ on his shoulders)
(symbolizes the “supermen” who refuse to support their ‘weak brethren’)
(but ‘atlas’ actually held up the ‘celestial spheres’, not the ‘earth’)
(‘dagny taggart’ is a woman who serves as ‘vice president’ of a ‘railroad company’ founded by her ‘grandfather’)
(she rails against the prevailing ‘collectivist government’ of the period)
(‘jonathan galt’ promises to “re-organize the world”)
(‘atlas shrugged’ is a ‘1957 novel’ by ‘ayn rand’)
(rand’s 4th (and final) novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of ‘fiction writing’)
(“atlas shrugged” includes elements of (‘science fiction’ / ‘mystery’ / ‘romance’), and it contains rand’s most extensive statement of “objectivism” in any of her ‘works of fiction’)
(the book depicts a dystopian ‘united states’, wherein many of society’s most ‘prominent’ + ‘successful’ industrialists abandon their ‘fortunes’ and even the nation, in response to ‘aggressive new regulations’, whereupon most vital industries collapse)
(the title is a reference to ‘atlas’, a ‘titan’ described in the novel as “the giant who holds the world on his shoulders”)
(the significance of this reference appears in a conversation between the characters ‘francisco d’anconia’ + ‘hank rearden’, in which ‘d’anconia’ asks ‘rearden’ what advice he would give ‘atlas’ upon seeing that “the greater [the titan’s] effort, the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders”)
(with ‘rearden’ unable to answer, d’anconia gives his own response: “to shrug”)
(the theme of atlas shrugged, as ‘rand’ described it, is “the role of man’s mind in existence”)
(the book explores a number of ‘philosophical themes’ from which ‘rand’ would subsequently develop ‘objectivism’)
(in doing so, it expresses the advocacy of (‘reason’ / ‘individualism’ / ‘capitalism’), and depicts what ‘rand’ saw to be the failures of ‘governmental coercion’)
(“atlas shrugged” received ‘largely negative reviews’ after its ‘1957 publication’, but achieved ‘enduring popularity’ + ‘consistent sales’ in the following decades)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥