The Ideal Man Defined in The Fountainhead :: Fountainhead

The Ideal Man delineate in The Fountainhead Ayn Rand has based her novel, The Fountainhead on the projection of an type valet de chambre. It is the portrayal of a moral ideal as an end in itself. She has placed man-worship above all and has brought out(a) the significance of the heroic in man. Man-worshippers are those who see mans highest potential and strive to actualize it. They are give to the exaltation of mans self esteem and the sacredness of his happiness on earth. The Fountainhead has brought out the greatness of man - the capacity, the ability, the integrity and honesty in man - as an ideal to be achieved. It is based on the idea of romanticism which authority that it is concerned not with things as they are provided with things as they energy be and ought to be. The Fountainhead is the story of an architect, Howard Roark-, whose genius and integrity were as grim as granite and of his desperate battle waged against the conventional standards of society. It is a tale of evil and denunciation unleashed by the society against a great innovator of a man who has great conviction in himself of a person who believes that mans stolon right on earth is the right of the ego and that mans first affair is the duty to himself, a man who redefines egoism. An egoist, in the absolute sense, is not the man who sacrifices others to self. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in all manner. Roark doesnt function through others. He needs no other men. His pristine goal is to achieve perfection. He is a man with uncompromising determine and integrity. In order to make her philosophy clearer, Ayn Rand has simultaneously given an identify of people like Peter Keating and Ellsworth M. Toohey. Peter Keating - a man who cheats and lies scarcely preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest except others think he is honest and he derives his self-respect from that. His aim in life is greatness - in other peoples eyes. O ther people rigid his conviction which he did not hold but he was squelched that others believed he held them. Others were his prime concern. He didnt want to be great but to be thought great. He borrowed from others to make an impression on others.