Characters
A Hugh Akston A famous philosopher, “the last advocate of reason” and a renowned teacher at the Patrick Henry University; John Galt, Francisco d’Anconia, and […]
Month: October 2008
Construction
A Point of View In Atlas Shrugged, Rand efficiently uses a third-person narrative that most often comes from the limited omniscient perspective of one of […]
Historical Perspective
A The Red Scare Atlas Shrugged, although clearly set in the imaginary communist equivalent of the United States, lacks orientation in time. As Ronald E. […]
Questions
Rand was the originator of Objectivist philosophy, embodied in Atlas Shrugged. Did Objectivism ever gain acceptance in mainstream philosophy? Why or why not? Compare and […]
Compare and Contrast
1950s: Mao Zedong starts the Great Leap Forward in the People’s Republic of China, placing more than half a billion peasants into “people communes.” They […]
Further Reading
Every utopian text draws, if only a little, from Sir Thomas More’s classic original. Utopia, published in the 16th century at the bloom of English […]
Introduction
Although it achieved little commercial success at the time of its publication, As I Lay Dying has become one of William Faulkner’s most popular novels. […]
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (changed from the original spelling, Falkner) was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. He was the first of four […]
Plot Summary
As I Lay Dying chronicles the dark, comic story of a Mississippi family’s long and arduous journey to bury Addie, the family matriarch. Respecting Addie’s […]