Fountainhead Blog 2

Fountainhead Blog 2

1.) To me from what I have read Dominique doesn't really resist Roark, when he attempts to have sexual intercourse with her. Instead inside of her mind to enhance her pleasure she starts “losing control” of the situation. At first she disliked the sexual intercourse but eventually excepted it because of her mental state. For some reason she has a need to want to be in control of situations and her psychological being must be 'controlled' during the rape has a play on the situation.
To me when Ayn Rand once stated regarding this scene that, if it is “then rape by engraved invitation.” This to me is taken as if she won’t have enticed him then and lead him on then it wouldn’t have happened.

2.) Dominique treats everything as if its so complicated. Roark has, two different outlooks which symbolizes her complicated belief that all men are imperfect, even though Roark is not (so they say). She believes that all things that are beautiful should never be used by the imperfect. Then that they should be destroyed once after imperfect won’t use them. In this case the situation is complicated because she seems to contradict herself within her beliefs. Dominique somehow at this points has made some off the walls decisions. She starts to try to destroy Toohey career. She then starts to try to destroy things with Roark because of the situation with Roark.


In this section of the book Kneating tells Roark to “always be what people want you to be.” This makes Roark's belief of Keating encourage Roark tends to believe that people don't a choices because the choice has already been chosen, but is unknown




3.) Dominique thinks of Roark as 'the face of a god.' This description is not to be taken as literal; everything is a representation of something of deeper meaning. By 'face', Dominique is describing Roark's representation of an idea/belief. By 'god', she is describing the ideal of architecture. Thus, the meaning of the saying is simplified: Roark represents the true ideal of architecture, which is also part of Roark's belief system.

4.) Toohey uses Stoddard in order to bring down Roark which shows his personality. Toohey's has the belief that one needs to do what the greater good needs rather than for yourself. Toohey is manipulative and he shows this when he makes a proposal to Roark to help construct a temple or chapel. This was only in my point of view to help himself and diminish Roark.



5.) Dominique once again in showing her unstable mental state. She exemplifies this by marrying Keating to deal with her trying to accept society's imperfection as perfection.
Dominique surrenders everything she believes in when Roark fails her so call test. This ruins her belief of him as perfect, not because he isn't, but because society doesn't accept him as that. By marrying Keating, she is trying to regain a new state of being in which she hasn’t reached yet.