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Common street crime is conspicuously absent in /AtlasShrugged?. Characters walk the streets with no thought of being mugged or attacked. |
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Common street crime is conspicuously absent in AtlasShrugged. Characters walk the streets with no thought of being mugged or attacked. * Historical figures and events AtlasShrugged takes place in a world with a different history from our own, but there are some historical figures that are mentioned. #Aristotle (/SectioN152?): /FranciscoDAnconia? wrote a thesis on the influence of Aristotle's theory of the Immovable Mover. #Inquisition (/SectioN152?): /SebastianDAnconia? flees Spain to escape persecution under the Inquisition. #Nero (/SectioN152?): /FranciscoDAnconia? compares himself to the Emperor Nero. #Patrick Henry (/SectioN152?): The eponym of /PatrickHenryUniversity?. * Humor #In /SectioN152?, Francisco cracks that the Mexican government was promising a roast of pork every Sunday for every man, woman, child and abortion. #In /SectioN152?, Francisco lists the various buildings constructed for the workers of the San Sebastian Mines, and notes how they are all poorly built and can be expected to collapse, except for the church. "The church, I think, will stand. They'll need it," he quips. Since the other things are things of value - houses, roads, etc. - it is ironic that only the church was built to last; to Rand and her heroes, a church is of no real value. |
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The sympathetic characters of /AtlasShrugged? do not tell lies. Even when they are clearly trying to conceal something, they do not rely on overt falsehood, even when it is obvious that they could do so without being found out. There are a few exceptions. |
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The sympathetic characters of AtlasShrugged do not tell lies. Even when they are clearly trying to conceal something, they do not rely on overt falsehood, even when it is obvious that they could do so without being found out. There are a few exceptions. |
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* Religion In /SectioN152? Francisco tells Dagny he named the /SanSebastianMines? after his ancestor /SebastianDAnconia?, a man they both honor deeply. This, to Dagny, is blasphemy - the only kind of blasphemy she understands. * Social classes Rand is sometimes called an elitist. This claim is probably accurate if we allow for the fact that Rand had her own standard of eliteness. She did not favor the rich over the poor, or the high-born over the low-born. She favored the men of virtue over those who lacked virtue. Throughout AtlasShrugged, virtue is equated with creative ability. Different social classes are represented among both the heroes and the villains of AtlasShrugged. Among the heroes, /JohnGalt? and /HankRearden? are from working class backgrounds, while /DagnyTaggart? and /FranciscoDAnconia? are from wealthy families. Among the villains, /FredKinnan? is from a working class background, while /JamesTaggart? and /BettyPope? are from wealthy families. |
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