Fountain head

1. Fountain head Power Point: Anita Hoffman

2. Genre/Mood Genre:the fountainhead is an objectivist fictional philosophic allegory. Mood: The fountainhead had an overall moralizing mood that made readers think about every aspect that the novel had to offer.

3. Imagery • Page 1- “He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over motionless water. The water seemed immovable, the stone-flowing. The stone had the stillness of on brief moment in battle when thrust meets thrust and the currents are held in a pause more dynamic than motion. The stone glowed, wet with sunrays.” • Page 111- “He had had time to see her eyes; they seemed weary and a little contemptuous, but they left him with a sense of cold cruelty.” • Page 400- “He was like a new sort of legal instrument; if a finger were to touch any part of him, it would release the trigger.”

4. Protagonist Antagonist hOward roark Ellsworth Toohey “I play the stock market of the spirit and I sell short.“ • “A building has integrity, just like a man.”

5. Setting Narrator/POV • The Fountainhead’s narrator is each of the characters, focalized in the story, and was in the Third Person point of view in the present tense. • The setting in The Fountainhead is in the time period of 1922–1939, mostly in New York city, but also in CT, OH, MA, and also Monadnock Valley.

6. Plot Exposition: Howard Roark is kicked out of stanton, leading him onto his road of struggle with money, jobs, and people. Peter keating is thought to be successful, though his success comes from Roark. Rising Action: Roark and Dominique francon meet, and while Dominique tries to destroy him before society can, Roark begins to gain more and more commissions. Keating receives the opportunity to create government housing, cortlandt homes, and with roark’s ideas, he takes the commission as long as he doesn’t allow changes. Worse comes to worse, and there’s nothing peter can do against the changes made to the buildings. Howard is very unhappy. Climax: Howard roark blows up the cortlandt homes because of his corrupted designs. Falling action: Howard roark is to stand trial because he is believed to be guilty of the destruction of the governmetn housing buildings, roark admits to doing it but pleads not guilty and delivers a beautiful, empowering speech, earning him his freedom. Resolution: Dominique and Howard get married, finally, and it is a happily ever after. <3

7. Themes Theme 1: The importance of individuality and independence. Theme 2: The passion one has for things that they own and love. Theme 3: You cannot derive success from others. Theme 4: Reason is imperative to a stable- thinking society.

8. Symbolism The Banner symbolizes the corruptness of the altruist society portrayed in The Fountainhead. Throughout the novel, The Banner publishes the publics beliefs and opinions, no matter how dirty it made the newspaper seem. It symbolizes the worst elements of a dependent mass culture. At the end of the book, when Gail Wynand tries to defend Roark for his Cortlandt Trial, it brings down the newspaper,

9. Characterization Howard Roark Ellsworth Toohey Ellsworth Toohey is at first rarely spoken of, with only hints of his popularity echoing about. Toohey becomes more and more prominent with each well written article talked about, and soon the public is depending on him to give their opinions, telling them what to think and how. Ayn Rand made Toohey the evil side of man, and Toohey plays the part well as he leeches power off of the people, destroying their individuality in the process. • Howard Roark starts from the ground, portrayed as a failure thrown out of school for his ideas, and works his way up through honest work. More and more of his work begins to get traction, and Roark’s success is his alone. Roark did not accept help even when it was most needed, and his integrity shone throughout his character through the entire novel. Ayn Rand made Roark the ideal man, free from dependence upon others.

10. Character Relationships Howard Roark: Bright orange hair to match his confidence, howard roark is a shining, creative, independent architect. He relies on no one and for that reason he is the Novel’s protagonist. Roark is Rand’s ideal man because of his integral characteristics. Peter Keating: Keating begins as a well-liked, attractive boy who makes it big as an architect… Well, at first. He mooches off of Roark, putting his name on roark’s work. By doing this, keating only digs himself a hole of failure, and in the end, turns into the opposite of what he set out to be. Ellsworth toohey: Ellsworth Toohey is evil. He preaches dependence and grayness. Toohey is corrupt, and yet society follows him. He gains power by feeding of the weaker minds and turning them in the direction he pleases. Toohey is the antagonist. Gail Wynand: Owner of the banner, Wynand is viewed as corrupt because of what he puts in his paper, but wynand actually is corrupt. He has allowed society to corrupt him. When wynand meets roark and Dominique, he immediately marries Dominique and befriends roarkbecause of their integrity. Wynand is very passionate about both roark and Dominique and wishes to never let society harm them, but in the end, it’s them protecting him. Steven Mallory: Mallory is a lost figure until roark finds him and reawakens his sense of direction. He is a brilliant sculpturist. Dominique Francon: Dominique is the beautiful daughter of guy francon. She is much like howard but she does not believe that there is anything good in the world until she meets him. She sets out to destroy him before society does, and they fall in love instantly. Dominique first marries keating, then wynand, before finally marrying howard. Henry Cameron: Cameron is esteemed architect known for his individuality, but society eventually tears him down because of his refusal to mold into their ideals.

11. Conflict! The conflict in The Fountainhead can in no way be internal as far as Howard Roark is concerned. The main external conflict of Ayn Rand’s novel is that society is slack and dependably collective against Roark’s individual genius, and they constantly clash together.

12. Message of the story The message of the story is the Idea in the minds of true individuals alone has moved the world forward in progression and will continue to do so, no matter the pressures in their paths.

13. Fountainhead in comparison with reality Ayn Rand created Howard Roark as the ideal man, with integrity, confidence, and independence. In Fountainhead, Roark was criticized as being selfish and an egotist because of his beliefs and individual strenght. Roark, at his last trial, explains that the ‘act’ of selflessness has destroyed mankind by taking away its independence and individuality. This correlates with today’s society because the way we rely upon others, completely dependent on their thoughts and beliefs, makes us ignorant, unoriginal, and insecure.