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Originality In Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

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Originality is a hard trait to maintain, it can change due to the expectations of the public causing people to change their trait. This can cause a person to lose their originality and influences them in a bad manner. Ayn Rand challenged this ideology and through her novels, she proved that individuality is a better philosophy. Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is an attack on collectivism, an entity overpowering creativity and individualism.
Howard Roark is first used by Ayn Rand to defy the rationality of tradition set by Stanton University. By doing so, he ends up getting expelled by creating a radical final project of the year. Ayn Rand explains this through the argument between Roark and the Dean. Roark broke the tradition of designing Renaissance …show more content…

She was able to obtain the same virtues as Roark but had different reasons. She wanted to be individual in order to not get attached to anything in the world. She fought collectivism by doing what she wanted and publishing what she liked and experienced. In the beginning, Dominique was shown to have done the experiment of living as a poor person. She ended up writing about it and didn’t care what others had thought about her. She saw that people like Keating and Toohey were evil and had power. They weren’t living up to their highest potential as men and only wanted to control society. She loved Roark because he was the living up to his highest potential. She felt that the world would someday destroy the things that she would love and wouldn’t pursue any values in her life. She decided to take Roark’s side and support him. Despite her helping Roark, Dominique had her own mind that wasn’t influenced by anything …show more content…

He decided that he would try to gain power to control the lives of other people. He tried to control collectivism by preaching to the public about self-sacrifice. He made the weak-willed people give up their own thinking and externally influenced their minds. He always shows as giving the public his full attention but is able to maintain individualism in the crowd of collectivism. He gains authority from his unquestioning followers and can influence the actions of many people including Wynand employees and rich people like Hopton Stoddard. Though he manipulates people and gains power, Toohey is able to maintain his own identity and not get controlled by

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