Howard Roark is the first such figure in her novels. The book is about the conflict between those who think for themselves and those who allow others to dominate their lives.Īccording to Ayn Rand, the goal of her writing is the presentation of an ideal man.
The theme, as Ayn Rand states it, is individualism versus collectivism, not in politics but in men's souls. Roark, like many inventors and creative thinkers of history, struggles to win acceptance for his ideas against the tradition-bound masses, who follow established norms and are fearful of change. Its hero, Howard Roark, is an innovative architect, a man whose brilliant and radically new designs are not understood and are rejected by the majority of society. Having grown up in the totalitarian dictatorship of the Soviet Union, holding an impassioned belief in political freedom and the rights of the individual, Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead as a tribute to the creative freethinker.
All of the major intellectual themes that inform Rand's fiction and her subsequent philosophy are presented clearly in this novel.
The Fountainhead serves as an excellent introduction to both Ayn Rand's writing and her philosophy of Objectivism.
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