Analysis of Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand was hailed as a visionary, inspite of the largely negative reviews it received immediately after the release of the ‘Atlas Shrugged’. The subsequent years saw the book achieving enduring popularity. The theme of the book is based on objectivism, which isvharacterised as a philosophy for living on earth, which has its roots in reality and it aims to define the human nature and the nature of the world in which we live in. Ayn Rand states that the sense of perception is the direct link between the reality and the human consciousness, and that an objective knowledge is gained through the process of concept formation and inductive logic. She claims that the puruit of ones own happiness is a proper moral purpose of ones life and that the social system should respect ones individual rights. Ayn Rand tries to potray how America would be in the reality which favours extreme communism over capitalism.Through excellent character sketches, as well as suggestive names (Orren Boyle, sounds like a bad skin condition, Wesly Mouch, one of the main ‘looters’ or ‘mooches’, Larkin, known to lurk around avoiding his responssibilities) Ayn Rand has made her views public against holding public welfare as an ultimate goal.
Atlas Shrugged takes readers into the United States as depicted as if belonging to near future. The world has spiraled into an economic depression as the citizens have a growing sense of despair and doom. The book which is divided into three parts ,the first of which is Non Contradiction, in which the reader is exposed to a variety of seemingly contradictory arguments and paradoxical character sketches.The book starts with an intelligent, and a sort of insensitive Eddie planning to meet James, the president of railway lines to sort out the obstacles delaying the construction of the strategically important Transcontinental Rio Norte Line, a new line in the western United States. The president is potrayed to be a reluctant participant in forcing the completion