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Fountain Head

Statistics

  Counts

  Total Pages: 3.28
  Total Words: 820
  Total Characters: 3841
  Number of Sentences: 49


  Averages

  Words per Sentences: 16.73
  Characters per Words: 4.68


  Readability

  Flesch Reading Ease: 69.96
  Fog Scale Level: 10.25
  Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.66  

Fountain Head


Fountain Head Essay

     Individualism, the only element which makes a person's character unique.  In the Fountain Head, a character binds true to this belief and goes by the name of Howard Roark.  This young architect who had his own viewpoint of the world and how he envisioned it, was condemned by the media and the public by doing so.  Roark's lifestyle completely perpendiculates the mundane lifestyle that the average citizen lives.  Roark conforms to only what he considers valid in his own conscience.  The novel opens the door to lead the way against the oppression of conformity.  The environment which Howard was placed into didn't help in his situation to freely express his thoughts on certain subjects.  This was mainly made possible by the people who he had come in contact through out the years.  Many examples of this type of movement are shown by the actions taken by Roark during his career as an architect.
     All of the actions taken by Roark had a deep profound effect on one key player in the novel, Toohey.  Toohey with all the power he had with the public and through the newspaper, was not able to manipulate Howard into his way of thinking.  The general public who read the Banner had been convinced that Toohey new what he was talking about on all subjects.  His plan to manipulate the public and gather them as a whole was directly countered with every move that Howard made.  One of these major moves was the building of the Stoddard Temple.  With the temple, Roark had the freedom to build whatsoever he choose.  This gave him a medium to express his viewpoint without having any restrictions.  After the delayed unveiling of the temple, it was condemned by the public.  At the head of this group was no other than Toohey.  He wrote articles in the newspaper on how the temple in no way represented the human spirit.  The temple allowed Howard to display his individualism, his uniqueness, and his self being.  This temple was looked down upon because...

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