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I JUST FINISHED READING LES MISERABLES FOR THE...WELL I'VE READ IT QUITE A FEW TIMES. DO YOU THINK?
In reading where Jean Val Jean lifted the cart with his shoulders, after becoming the part of the local Gentry, do you think that it may have inspired Ayn Rand in her Atlas theme?
I mean, I have been a Rand reader and admirer for the better part of the last two decades. But this re perusal of of Hugo's magnum opus, considering Rand's admitted to his influence, caused me to reflect nd then wonder.
Anyone on answers no if I might e on the right track?
Sometimes the simplest explanation is best. The reference to Atlas in Atlas Shrugged is to the titan of Greek mythology. In the myth, Atlas supported the planet across his shoulders, and similarly, Rand believed society rested upon the shoulders of its achievers.
Jean Valjean, though heroic and likely attractive to Rand because of it, hardly raises images of the sort of character one sees in Atlas Shrugged. I am not aware of anything Valjean said in Les Mis that suggests Objectivist principles. Indeed, if nothing else, he was not an atheist. I consider it unlikely that Rand based much of anything in Objectivism on him.
