Rapture In The Fountainhead And Atlas Shrugged

But Jack is not the one being introduced to so much. He is the protagonist of the 2007 video game Bioshock, and it is the player holding the controller who is about to about to have the better part of his or her life questioned with a trip through what is likely among the most twisted narratives he or she will experience. He is riding the bathysphere into the now desolate city of Rapture. It is the city the entire game takes place in, and it serves as the most modern widely received illustration of Objectivism to date.
Rapture was a city promised to be the ultimate opportunity for mankind. It was a place “where the artist would not fear the censor,” where a man could make a fortune he was willing to work for, and where no doctor or scientist

She published several other books, fiction and non-fiction, but none of them have reached the level of notoriety her twin philosophical pieces have.
These two pieces introduced the world to Rand’s philosophy for the first time, mostly because she had been somewhat undecided on her beliefs until she wrote those books. She wrote each story with the intention of deciding what the perfect humans would be like in her mind. She created the protagonists, Howard Roark and Dagny Taggart, to be the epitome of individualism, truth-seeking, ambition, and her newly created Objectivism.
Ayn Rand was a Russian-born novelist and screenwriter who came to America in the 1930’s. In high school, she “was eye-witness to both the Kerensky Revolution, which she supported, and –in 1917- the Bolshevik Revolution, which she denounced from the outset.” She grew to hate the mysticism found in her country early on, and in her last year of high school, she took an American history course and decided then that America was a country where her ideals could flourish. She believed it was there that a perfect country could be

And if we did so without prejudice and without the biases of its creator, the world may well be a better place for it. If we accept what is objectively true, and we seek whatever will it is that has been placed in us, then we can only gain. Let it be left with this: If we were all to remember not to sacrifice another for ourselves, there would be no need of Malcom X, of Aung San Suu Kyi, or of Gandhi. We should remember that if human achievement is praised, we might just be more likely to reach for it. And in the face of being chained down by populace and tradition, we should remember that “a man chooses; a slave