Objectivism in Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and We the Living Attention: This document is not formatted! Who am I? In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand provides a well-written explanation of objectivism in a monumental novel about those who hold the world on their shoulders. His characters are a myriad of individuals, ranging from the highest possible achievement: a human being, to one of the most horrific creatures on this planet: a once-human imbecile. It provides the reader with great insight into the psyche of society and the motivations behind our actions. In this novel, Rand's most righteous characters are the ones with the most internal conflict. They must free themselves from the conditioning imposed on them by the inhabitants of the earth and leave behind what they consider most precious. There is one character who is held higher than the others. A man gifted with morality, introspection and enigma, he begins the book and finishes it. So, who is John Galt? John Galt is Rand's brilliant character who combines imagination and intelligence. It can be said that John Galt has the same opinion on life as Henry David Thoreau. They both believe that you shouldn't carry the world on your shoulders; they realize that in reality by donating things to the needy (Rand would use the word unworthy) you are not allowing them to become better people, but simply allowing them to feed off the success of others. Their opinions differ as Thoreau had good intentions for everyone and Galt is only interested in the best for the competent and likes the idea of ​​leaving the juices in the dust. Galt brings the people of Atlas from the earth to their Olympus, Galt's Gulch. There, these extraordinary and competent people are able to create their own industrial utopia and live without the burden of the incompetents of the earth. He, like Dagny Taggart, Francisco d'Anconia, and Henry Reardon, is a person of high ideals and standards. He values ​​the dollar because he knows that the dollar is the highest commodity of respect a human being can give to the ability of another. The dollar sign itself is the symbol of its country's initials: for the United States, “the only country in history where wealth was acquired not by plunder, but by production, not by force, but by commerce... The symbol of man's rights to his mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself” (Atlas Shrugged, 637).