Fountainhead
(Ayn Rand)
In a time when people feared the Red Menace, were still weary from a crippling depression, and fearful of the looming world war, Ayn Rand penned a novel that praised above all else the prowess of the Individual.
After leaving Russia and coming to the United States, Miss. Rand wrote the Fountainhead as a backlash against the opressive yoke of Communism. In her novel, she describes an architect named Howard Roark who refuses to sacrifice his principles in order to become accepted, instead designing buildings as he believes they should be designed. He forgoes the "classic" style and sketches modern, integrated structures that are meant to be lived in instead of "talked about".
Reading this book joins us with Roark on his fight to be creative, rebelling against demagogues who preach mediocrity to quach the rights of the individual, making us feel what it is like to be able to create something so sincere.
As the novel takes us on our journey with Roark, Rand adds similarly minded characters that understand what it means to do things that culture does not understand, pushing at the fabric of society and making it change shape. In contrast we also encounter those who see the rebellion, the simple ignoring of those rules, and know it for the danger it is. They try to stop Roark, attempting to maintain their hold on the public at large, villifying his work and those who support him. But in the end, Roark prevails and his philosophy is vindicated, proving the worth of the Individual in the face of society's needs, and letting us all feel the triumph of being an individual.
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