Ayn Rand: Journal Entry 1
“I did not start by trying to describe the folks next door-but by inventing people who did things the folks next door would never do. I could summon no interest or enthusiasm for ‘people as they are’- I had in my mind a blinding picture of people as they could be. (Ayn Rand: A Writer’s Life course, aynrand.org).
I had no idea that the author I chose had such a prominent and significant role in history. Ayn Rand was not only a writer, she was also a public figure and philosopher. Ayn Rand was born February 2, 1905 as Alisa Rosenbaum in Russia. Rand’s early life was spent in Russia, a tumultuous and horrific time of Communism that left an undying imprint on Rand. Her family fled during the worst of the revolution, and …show more content…
This would protect her family from repercussions because they were stuck in Russia, and give Rand the freedom to write as freely as needed. After spending a few days in New York, Rand made her way to Hollywood. She wanted to work on films. Luckily, films were still silent and her broken English wasn’t as critical of an issue as she anticipated. Rand married Frank O’Connor in 1929, he worked on films and she was doing her best to succeed as a screenwriter. The couple struggled financially early in their marriage, and Rand took numerous odd jobs as she was able.
Rand found success off and on with screenwriting or in stage writing. Her lifelong goal was to create and tell the story of “The Ideal Man.” She fell in love with a character early in her life that she imagined having the qualities of the ideal man. In her novel, “The Fountainhead” Rand claims her leading character Rourke had several of these qualities. Rand soon sold the film rights to “The Fountainhead” and found a financial …show more content…
This is a statement from Rand regarding the strength and character of women being just as essential. “Above all else, he (the ideal man) is a man guided exclusively by reason, a man of independence and a man of great self-esteem. These three are the distinguishing characteristics of what I regard as an ideal man.” Coming from a time of terror and death this applied in Rand’s mind to men initially. It appears these thoughts slowly moved to include all men in the unisex fashion, and further to apply to
“I did not start by trying to describe the folks next door-but by inventing people who did things the folks next door would never do. I could summon no interest or enthusiasm for ‘people as they are’- I had in my mind a blinding picture of people as they could be. (Ayn Rand: A Writer’s Life course, aynrand.org).
I had no idea that the author I chose had such a prominent and significant role in history. Ayn Rand was not only a writer, she was also a public figure and philosopher. Ayn Rand was born February 2, 1905 as Alisa Rosenbaum in Russia. Rand’s early life was spent in Russia, a tumultuous and horrific time of Communism that left an undying imprint on Rand. Her family fled during the worst of the revolution, and …show more content…
This would protect her family from repercussions because they were stuck in Russia, and give Rand the freedom to write as freely as needed. After spending a few days in New York, Rand made her way to Hollywood. She wanted to work on films. Luckily, films were still silent and her broken English wasn’t as critical of an issue as she anticipated. Rand married Frank O’Connor in 1929, he worked on films and she was doing her best to succeed as a screenwriter. The couple struggled financially early in their marriage, and Rand took numerous odd jobs as she was able.
Rand found success off and on with screenwriting or in stage writing. Her lifelong goal was to create and tell the story of “The Ideal Man.” She fell in love with a character early in her life that she imagined having the qualities of the ideal man. In her novel, “The Fountainhead” Rand claims her leading character Rourke had several of these qualities. Rand soon sold the film rights to “The Fountainhead” and found a financial …show more content…
This is a statement from Rand regarding the strength and character of women being just as essential. “Above all else, he (the ideal man) is a man guided exclusively by reason, a man of independence and a man of great self-esteem. These three are the distinguishing characteristics of what I regard as an ideal man.” Coming from a time of terror and death this applied in Rand’s mind to men initially. It appears these thoughts slowly moved to include all men in the unisex fashion, and further to apply to