olerate imperfection, despising power gain through self deprivation and unjust sacrifices. She mimics the qualities of a collective society in Peter Keating, a living mannequin, suseptable only to the movements which others care to permit. Outspokenly, Ayn Rand defends her opinions of a collective's destructive nature by lowering the character of Peter Keating to a point which is comparable to insects, slugs and parasites.Keating is not a man, but a mass mob of the collective. When Rand refers to him, she speaks of society as a whole. When Keating speaks of self, he voices the thoughts of a million. He kills the meaning of the word ‘independence'.He is very smart and cunning, but all of which he steals or borrows from others. His apparition of progress is repetition and his view of success is the approval by some one else.Keating is the master manipulator, who knowingly victimizes himself. He represents his own sacrificial goat, offering to a god that has no face, but many faces. In sacrificing he gains nothing except false prestige and a delusion of happiness. He follows the desires of his mother and cast aside dreams of pursuing the profession he wants. In doing so, he denies himself the gratification of doing what he wants to do and in turn sentencing himself to a life of misery and frustration. The fool refuses to accept that, ' Where there's sacrifice, there is some one collecting sacrificial offerings,' and, ‘ Where there is service, there is some one being served.' Ultimately, this ties into slavery, and worse yet, its self slavery.Keating flows through a transition of vanity, fame, lies, flatter, andeventually guilt. He lacks the essential of self respect. A person without self respect lives in insecurity, holding a bomb that has no control over its detonation switch. The fame that he dwell on comes with a price and that is the man's own dignity. He flushes his human qualities in a trade with the devil...
