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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comBIG SISTER IS WATCHING YOU 167complete economic freedom and social respect, the strikers intend towithhold their talents from society. To Dagny and Hank, who do notunderstand the motivation of the strikers, the mysterious disappearanceof their counterparts in every industry is yet another burden to bear.The man masterminding this strike, John Galt, does not appear as amain character until more than halfway through the 1,084-page novel.Although Galt is only a shadowy figure for most of the book, he is theculmination of Rand’s efforts to create a hero. Like Howard Roark, Galtis a man of physical beauty, outsize genius, and granite integrity. He hascreated a motor run by static electricity that will revolutionize scienceand industry, but keeps it a secret lest it be captured by the collectivists.Once Galt enters the story, he begins pursuing Dagny and Hank, the lasttwo competent industrialists who have not joined the strike. He wantsto lure them to his mountain hideaway, Galt’s Gulch, where the strikershave created a utopian free market society.The dramatic tension in Atlas Shrugged comes from Rand’s underlyingbelief that evil is impotent unless aided by the good. Galt must teachDagny and Hank that by refusing to join the strike, they are aiding andabetting the collectivist evils that have overcome their country. Without“the sanction of the victim”—the unwitting collaboration of exceptionalindividuals—Rand’s collectivists would be powerless. 3 The booktips into philosophical territory as Galt makes his case to Dagny andHank, aided by a cast of colorful secondary characters such as FranciscoDomingo Carlos Andres Sebastián D’Anconia, a renegade aristocrat.Here the novel becomes more than a parable about capitalism. Rand’scharacters learn to reject the destructive sacrificial ethics and devotionto community they have been taught, and instead join the ethical selfishnessof Galt’s strike.As in The Fountainhead, Rand redefined morality to fit her vision.It was moral to make money, to work for oneself, to develop uniquetalents and skills. It was also moral to think, to be rational: “A rationalprocess is a moral process,” Galt lectures his audience. “Thinking isman’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed” (944). It isimmoral to ask for anything from others. Galt’s strikers swear an oaththat encapsulates Rand’s ethics: “I swear by my life and my love of it thatI will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to livefor mine” (680).