Essays on The Fountainhead

In the book Ayn Rand, the reader comes face to face with a society that is crippled with the human nature that considers individualism as sin. The protagonist of the story Equality 7-2521 goes on to question the spirit of collectivism which seems to be liked by a majority in his society. He goes on to say that his individualism has driven him and those with like minds to thoughts that are forbidden (1.6). According to him, the individual can never succeed unless he works together with others. Even when faced with a society that is crippled with collectivism, Equality 7-2521 stood ...

Introduction

In view of the comparative and contrastive analysis of literary elements, I have chosen the novel "The Fountainhead" for its elaborative analysis and interpretation. This novel was later transformed into a movie to add an escalated significance to its beauty and philosophy. This novel deals with the accountability of a person to remain conscious and disciplined to the fundamental needs of environment, human beings, and humanity. In my view, no one or nothing should be placed above the universal right of a person to live in a happy, healthy, progressive, noble, and ideal life, and lead a peaceful and an honourable life in this ...

Post-modernism is a literary construct wherein actual modernism is critiqued – modernism being the Enlightenment-like idea that one needs only to be confident in oneself in order to accomplish anything, from life goals to wealth. In the books Blood Meridian and The Fountainhead, post-modernist viewpoints allow the authors to deconstruct this confidence, demonstrating how immaterial and ineffective it can be. The short stories “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” and “Jackson is Only One of my Dogs” also use postmodernism to deconstruct what it means to be normal and modern.

Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian follows an unnamed teenage ...