The Fountainhead | Themes
Rand's self-stated theme in this work is "individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man's soul." More specifically, the work rebukes the collectivization of art and the lack of respect for the innovator, the true genius. In some cases, new developments in art (specifically modern architecture in this novel) are simply unfamiliar and are shunned for that reason. Some people, however, the truly depraved, recognize the brilliance of new developments but set out to destroy them because they are incapable of duplicating them. Keating hates Roark because he knows that Roark is...
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