Philosophical Views: Individualism - Themes, The Fountainhead | The Fountainhead - Summary, Themes and Characters - Novels PDF Download

Rand's philosophy of "I Am A Beautiful, Unique Snowflake" (or Objectivism, if you want to sound stuffy about it) goes a little something like this:

• Earn a lot of money. (Okay, sure, we like money!)
• Go against the crowd. (Okay, yeah, being a sheep ain't great.)
• Get your selfishness on. (Okay, but within reason, right?)
• Have lots of sex (Okay, yes, can do!)... even if it ain't necessarily consensual (Um... wait. Hold up. That's not sexy.)
• Don't care about people's feelings. (Umm, wait, what?)
• Go ahead and blow things up in order to preserve your individual and artistic integrity. (Whoa, whoa, whoa.)

The Fountainhead's main man/Objectivist mouthpiece Roark does all these things. So you can base your allegiance to Objectivism on where you think Roark falls on the "dirtbag to superhero" spectrum.

Chew on This

Try on an opinion or two, start a debate, or play the devil’s advocate.

Dominique has her fair share of issues, but ultimately she's a bold individual who stands on par with Roark himself.

Dominique isn't a brave individual; instead she's someone who acts out of fear and ends up conforming to society even as she supposedly revolts against it.