Capital Group Of Companies

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Admin
Capital Group Of Companies

Capital Group Of Companies

Ayn Rand was born Alissa Rosenbaum in 1905 in Russia. She saw first-hand the horrors of the Russian Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, and life under a socialist regime. These early experiences led her to fall in love with the ideals and freedoms of America while she was still in high school.

In college, she began writing essays about Hollywood, and these writings became her ticket out of Russia. She left under the guise of traveling to California to further her studies of Hollywood. Once she arrived in the United States, she never returned to her homeland.

Ayn Rand immediately began writing screenplays, books, and essays. Her first novel, We the Living, published by MacMillan in 1936, was a manifesto against socialism. This theme stayed with Rand through her entire life and body of works.

Theme and Plot of Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged begins with the introduction of Dagny Taggart, a woman who is intelligent, powerful, and driven to improve technology and thereby improve human existence. She and her colleague Hank Reardon, in the railroad and mining industries, are thwarted from successful and efficient production and operations by too much government legislation.

The novel unfolds with the government benefiting from the hard work and achievements of the most intellectual minds. By legislating the intellectuals’ activities, it hopes to harness their abilities. As the government grows in power, it squashes anything that doesn’t benefit its interests and workers unions, creating increasingly larger problems.

The core of the problems are revealed when Dagny discovers a rusting hulk of an engine buried in the ruins of the collapsed Twentieth Century Motor Company. It is so advanced it can pull electricity from the air to operate machinery, but it was never developed. It was abandoned because of repressive government policies.This motor is a symbol of what happens to the drive for human achievement when freedom is repressed.

The story deepens as the intellectuals and leading industrialists and entrepreneurs begin disappearing. The government continues to gain more control, and increases legislation designed to benefit workers, but destroy the entrepreneurs. The economy and businesses fail, transportation lines go to ruin, and famine arises. Yet the government still doesn’t change its ways.