The fountainhead atlas shrugged5/27/2023 It's terrible to loose one's footing everytime one has to deal with people or even with oneself. I was utterly confounded by people and life in general and Atlas Shrugged gave me the tools I needed to understand them, or atleast ideas that I could work on. But the theme was Roark-not Roark's relation to the world. In The Fountainhead I showed that Roark moves the world-that the Keatings feed upon him and hate him for it, while the Tooheys are consciously out to destroy him. That is, the personal is necessary only to the extent needed to make the relationships clear. Therefore, the personal becomes secondary. Now, it is this relation that must be the theme. Their relations to each other-which is society, men in relation to men-were secondary, an unavoidable, direct consequence of Roark set against Toohey. The story's primary concern was the characters, the people as such, their natures. The other characters were variations on the theme of the relation of the ego to others-mixtures of the two extremes, the two poles: Roark and Toohey. The primary concern there was with Roark and Toohey-showing what they are. "The Fountainhead was about "individualism and collectivism within man's soul" it showed the nature and function of the creator and the second-hander.
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