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English 104

Atlas Shrugged Part II

Choose one of the following quotations (page 2-3 below) from Atlas Shrugged Part II to expand upon in regards to the theme it represents in respect to our current culture.

Instructions:

Locate a news article from a respectable news source that deals with the same topic in the quotation to use as support for your interpretation of the quotation.

In a 2-3-page (minimum) essay, assess the broader meaning of the selected quote.

MLA formatting

Essay should include the following components:

· Introduce the quotation in regards to the subject being discussed, and provide a brief background to the context of textual discussion.

· Provide an introduction, immediately following the background that introduces the idea/theme you see as being prevalent in the selected passage. Conclude the introduction with a thesis statement that connects the meaning of the quotation to the world today.

Within the body of the essay:

· Discuss how the quotation is relevant to the book’s message.

· Discuss how the quotation has a larger meaning in today’s society in relation to a similar event/mindset.

· Provide evidence from the news selected news article to support your assertions

Conclusion should bring the book and our post modern society together, providing a connection you may have alluded to in the body, but did not specifically state.

Essay is due no later than October 27, 2016 to [email protected] and turnitin.com.

Quotes from Atlas Shrugged (below):

Quotes to choose from:

Page 533:

“Something’s got to be done and done fast!”

“Don’t look at me,” snapped Wesley Mouch. “I can’t help it. I can’t help it if people refuse to co-operate. I’m tied. I need wider powers.”

“Fact is,” said Mr. Weatherby primly, in a statistical tone of voice, “that in the twelve-month period ending on the first of this year, the rate of business failures has doubled, as compared with the preceding twelve-month period. Since the first of this year, it has trebled.”

“Be sure they think it’s their own fault,” said Dr. Ferris, casually.

“Huh?” said Wesley Mouch, his eyes darting to Ferris.

“Whatever you do, don’t apologize,” said Dr. Ferris. “Make them feel guilty.”

“I’m not apologizing!” snapped Mouch. “I’m not to blame. I need wider powers.”

“But it is their own fault,” said Eugene Lawson, turning aggressively to Dr. Ferris. “It’s their lack of social spirit. They refuse to recognize that production is not a private choice, but a public duty. They have no right to fail, no matter what conditions happen to come up. They’ve got to go on producing. It’s a social imperative. A man’s work is not a personal matter, it’s a social matter. There’s no such thing as a personal matter—or a personal life. That’s what we’ve go to force them to learn.”

Page 538-539

Beginning at:

“In the name of the general welfare,” read Wesley Mouch, “to protect the people’s security to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that—“

Continue through Point One-Point Eight

Ending with:

“It’s not the rich who’ll object, said Dr. Ferris lazily. “The rich drool for security more than any other sort of animal—haven’t you discovered that yet?”

Page 626:

“Who are you to stand against the government? Who are you, you miserable little office rat, to judge national policies and hold opinions of your own? Do you think the country has time to bother about your opinions, your wishes or your precious little conscience? You’re going to learn a lesson—all of you—all of you spoiled, self-indulgent, undisciplined little two-bit clerks, who strut as if that crap about your rights was serious! You’re going to learn that these are not the days of Nat Taggart!”

Page 469:

That’s true, said Rearden gravely. “Perhaps I owe you an explanation, if I have misled you. I’ve tried never to remind you that you’re living on my charity. I thought that it was your place to remember it. I thought than any human being who accepts the help of another, knows that good will is the givers only motive and that good will is the payment he owes I return. But I see that I was wrong . . .” (go to the end of the paragraph)

Page 436:

“But after all, I did break one of your laws.”

“Well, what do think they’re for?”

“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken you’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against—then you’ll know that this is not he age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. . . (to the end of the paragraph)