Exhibiting Ayn Rand’s voice the influential piece The Fountainhead, expresses the views Rand wanted shared. Ayn Rand, born in Russia in 1905, lived a normal childhood until Bolshevik soldiers took over her father’s store during the Russian Civil War forcing her family into poverty. The sudden change in lifestyle led to Rand developing strong feelings about the government’s involvement in people’s livelihoods. Rand continued to create new political, social and religious beliefs that led to her now well known philosophy Objectivism. Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, prevalent in her work The Fountainhead, shares her unique ideas, brought about by her past, through the characters in addition to the conflicts in the story.
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Rand chose to rebel against her mother’s self-sacrificing tendencies, as proven in The Fountainhead. She greatly dislikes the idea of unselfishness or in her own words,“I would say that ‘I don't like’ is two-week a word I consider it evil” her hatred clearly present in her work (Wallace). For example in her work Rand creates a main character that attacks altruism and speaks out on the evil in the philosophy. Rand wrote The Fountainhead to share her beliefs which explains why in an interview she voiced,“A system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody, and we are moving that way only because of our altruistic morality”, extremely similar to Rand’s main character’s stance (Wallace). Rand making her character express what she thinks, makes the protagonist express,“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self I cannot and must not be sacrificed” displaying how she is “challenging the moral code of altruism”(The Fountainhead 660; Wallace). Being raised by someone whose concepts she disagreed with made Rand want to share her thoughts and change people’s minds through her …show more content…
For instance, in her work, The Fountainhead, illustrates a character who works really hard on her own career until she meets a man. The situation, similar to what Rand’s own mother went through when she stopped working as a dentist after getting married, providing some evidence for the idea the character Dominique Francon would be based off her mother. The matter that Ayn Rand’s mother was a known social climber creates another bit of proof the character Dominique could be based on her mother. Ayn Rand describes Dominique’s social climbing abilities by saying,"“She moved through formal receptions, theater parties, dinners, dances—gracious and smiling” along with “She nodded to everything and accepted everything” something Anna would as well (The Fountainhead 158). Anna often urged Ayn to try to pretend to along with others for the sake of getting along. Her mother’s altruistic tendencies also makes an appearance in Dominique due to the fact she tries to destroy the career of a man she loves, for his sake. Dominique sees stopping his career as a kind of mercy kill therefore, although stopping his career hurts her she tries to destroy him. Ayn takes ideas from her own life in her novel, so the idea of Dominique being based on her mother would only make sense Dominique, a great example of Rand mixing her life with fiction, depicts the characteristics Ayn Rand’s own
Due to her background, …show more content…
Rand chose to rebel against her mother’s self-sacrificing tendencies, as proven in The Fountainhead. She greatly dislikes the idea of unselfishness or in her own words,“I would say that ‘I don't like’ is two-week a word I consider it evil” her hatred clearly present in her work (Wallace). For example in her work Rand creates a main character that attacks altruism and speaks out on the evil in the philosophy. Rand wrote The Fountainhead to share her beliefs which explains why in an interview she voiced,“A system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody, and we are moving that way only because of our altruistic morality”, extremely similar to Rand’s main character’s stance (Wallace). Rand making her character express what she thinks, makes the protagonist express,“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self I cannot and must not be sacrificed” displaying how she is “challenging the moral code of altruism”(The Fountainhead 660; Wallace). Being raised by someone whose concepts she disagreed with made Rand want to share her thoughts and change people’s minds through her …show more content…
For instance, in her work, The Fountainhead, illustrates a character who works really hard on her own career until she meets a man. The situation, similar to what Rand’s own mother went through when she stopped working as a dentist after getting married, providing some evidence for the idea the character Dominique Francon would be based off her mother. The matter that Ayn Rand’s mother was a known social climber creates another bit of proof the character Dominique could be based on her mother. Ayn Rand describes Dominique’s social climbing abilities by saying,"“She moved through formal receptions, theater parties, dinners, dances—gracious and smiling” along with “She nodded to everything and accepted everything” something Anna would as well (The Fountainhead 158). Anna often urged Ayn to try to pretend to along with others for the sake of getting along. Her mother’s altruistic tendencies also makes an appearance in Dominique due to the fact she tries to destroy the career of a man she loves, for his sake. Dominique sees stopping his career as a kind of mercy kill therefore, although stopping his career hurts her she tries to destroy him. Ayn takes ideas from her own life in her novel, so the idea of Dominique being based on her mother would only make sense Dominique, a great example of Rand mixing her life with fiction, depicts the characteristics Ayn Rand’s own