1. In Defense of Capitalism: Atlas Shrugged
... is noble, self-interest is evil, and greedy producers and businessmen have a moral obligation to serve the "greater good" of society. But the looters don't want to think, to invent, their virtues lie elsewhere. They have an insatiable need, a want for charity, for the self ... dark behavior surfaces as he watches Galt being tortured without breaking; we see the collapse of Jim as an individual. To me, the story up until the speech (the apex moment) hints at the motifs of Objectivism through the actions of the characters, and it's only during the speech that Rand hammers home her message....
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