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stages of knowledge to turn the soul to right desires; resonating with Roark’s path, showing that what’s more important is keeping your morals and self virtue, growing your knowledge higher. By the demise of Peter Keating, Roark’s path to success, and Ayn Rand’s portrayal of society in Fountainhead, Howard Roark has the true success. Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, people started in the dirt and oil and I feel that represented the disgraceful desires and temptations of society. Peter Keating personifies

philosophies to include in their novels, but Ayn Rand did. Ayn Rand used her philosophy in the main characters and influenced American society during the Cold War with her novel The Fountainhead. Through the actions of the protagonist Howard Roark, Ayn Rand demonstrates her philosophy of objectivism and her belief in individualism which reflect her opposition towards communism. Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905 under the name Alissa Rosenbaum (“Ayn”). Around the time of Rand’s childhood

movement in America, and throughout the world. More than any other single work, The Fountainhead revived popular enthusiasm for a way of thinking, and a way of life, that in 1943 was regarded by virtually every sector of intellectual opinion as outmoded. Ayn Rand's courageous challenge to accepted ideas was rendered still more courageous by her willingness to state her individualist premises in the clearest terms and to defend the most radical implications that could be drawn from them.            

of Individualism The novel, Anthem, by Ayn Rand portrays a dystopian society that is characterized by her concept of collectivism and the lack of individualism. Collectivism, in Rand’s view, is the belief that an individual will be subjugated to the group and sacrificed for the greater good (Novels&Works of Ayn Rand). Individualism is described as each individual has the right to do as they please to pursue their own happiness (Novels&Works of Ayn Rand). The narration in Anthem is in first person

Ayn Rand, the author of the Fountainhead book has well presented her great philosophy about Objectivism respectively and mostly through those two characters: Howard Roark and Peter Keating. In her writing she has described Howard Roark as the hero in the story. His struggle to succeed as an architect on his own develops the essence of the novel's conflict. Roark’s personality serves as a standard by which to judge the other characters; they are either like Roark or they would allow others in one

Ayn Rand’s purpose of writing The Fountainhead was to implore the reader to do and think for oneself. Throughout the novel, Ayn Rand portrays the horrors of living for others and leeching off other people’s ideas. She shows such horrors through characters such as Ellsworth Toohey, a manipulative journalist working for the Wynand Papers, and Peter Keating, Ayn Rand’s prime example of a “second-hander.” She also shows the beneficial outcome of living as an individual through a character named Howard

who lets his or her beliefs be known in a respectful way, are non-violent, and do not force opinions on anyone else. Ayn Rand is a positive influence on society because she was an author who wrote philosophical novels that showed her views in a non-violent manner, she revolutionized thought processes, advanced views of society, and remained objective, practicing objectivism. Ayn Rand was born in Russia in a middle-class home in 1905. In 1917, the Communist party took over the government in

Individualism in The Fountainhead        Individualism, the doctrine of free thought and action of the individual, forms the basis of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead. The major theme of her fiction is the primacy of the individual, the unique and precious individual life. That which sustains and enriches life is good, that which negates and impoverishes the individual's pursuit of happiness is evil. The Fountainhead is Rand's fullest explication of the primacy of the individual. As

why some people seek to destroy Howard Roark is that his very presence evokes an unreasonable fear in their hearts.  This quest to destroy the genius within him started from the very beginning of his career when he was expelled from The Stanton institute of Technology, where he had been studying architecture.  All his teachers except his mathematics professor were against him His boundless brilliance

Ayn Rand is an insightful philosopher who tries to define how an ideal person should act and think. She expresses her ideas onto Howard Roark in The Fountainhead. Many people in the book loathe and antagonize Roark because they are different from him. Ayn Rand describes Roark as a first-hander, while many other people are second-handers. First-handers, the ideal people described by Rand, are people who do not depend on other people but, rather, they want to excel in the things they are passionate