AYN RAND just like yourself haven't a clue as to what the "120 lessons" was trying to convey...
the 120 lessons were an ALLEGORY ...everything and I do mean everything is SYMBOLIC..as it states .."TAKE NOTHING ON FACE VALUE"
The evil big headed scientist was named YAKUB..the big head represented EGO......The island was patmos a place of ISOLATION and exile meaning that EVIL is so far removed from your ORIGINAL state..that to DEVIATE from your ORIGINAL STATE would make one a DEVIL...
YAKUB which is Arabic for JACOB was the perfect CHARACTER for this "story" because his characteristics were evil..he was known as a SUPPLANTER who stole ESAU's BIRTHRIGHT..which was symbolic to European society basically stealing and exploting the culture of the Blackman.
Western Society along with Capitilisim and those subscribing to the 4 devils (lust, greed, envy, hate) were DEVILS.........
all this is ESOTERIC LANGUAGE that you fail to comprehend......the LITERAL were the RELIGIOUS and were just being swindiled into thinking that......
that's always been the general rule of ESOTERIC CATECHISMs within the nation, the craft of masonry and other schools of thought to SEPERATE the LITERAL (PROFANE) blind FOLLOWERES from the ENLIGHTENGED ESOTERIC BENEATH THE SURFACE THINKERS (the WORTHY 5%)
" even in the 5% nation their is a 5%"- Kofi Allah