Blog Four of Fountainhead

3.) Gail Wynand hires Roark to build a fortress to protect Dominique from human society. Despite the irony, there is almost an inevitability to this event. Why does Wynand choose Roark from among all the architects of the country? Why is it fitting? What is the essence of their bond?

Wynand chosed Roark to build his home because he is in love with Roark's meaning of his work. Wynand has a good reason for building this home, this works around both a tribute and a protective barrier for Dominique from the rest of society in which they live. Wynand wants this home that Roark is building to be a symbol of everything that Dominique is to him. This to me is ironic because Roark is also in love with Dominique.
Both Wynand and Dominique share their same views but don’t are once again the complete opposites .Their reasons for doing what is done all and all are the same but for the too of them its all at a different level. While they respect each other, they both have their own intentions and plans to carry those intentions out.

6.) Why is Roark's brilliant design for Cortlandt Homes altered by Gus Webb and Gordon Prescott? What factors in society make it possible? Why is Keating, despite his best efforts, powerless to stop it?

Roark's design for the Cortlandt Homes was changed when the design went through Keeting, and Webb and Prescott knew that Keeting would be easy mulnipulate. Nowing how Keeting is it is obvious that Keeting is a pleaser. The society in which this took place affected the outcome in various ways. The society did not know the plans, the original design or who it was by, therefore they did not make even a notice when the plans began to change. Roark was away with Wynand at the time, so he could not enforce Keeting to stand up. Although Keeting did make efforts to stop the changes being made, he was ineffective for many reasons.

8.) Dominique assists Roark in the dynamiting, and tells him that she will wait for him even if he serves time in prison. She is no longer afraid of what society will do to him. What is the essence of Dominique's change of thinking? What error has she previously made that she now corrects? What enables her to finally see the truth? How does her change of mind integrate with the novel's theme?

"Howard, if you win the trial-even that won't matter too much. You've won long ago....I'll remain what I am, and I'll remain with you-now and ever-in any way you want...."
Dominique's mind frame has changed. To me this realization or fear only occurred because she let the fear Roark being thrown in jail take hold of her. She excepted the fact that if didn’t anyone know that they both knew the truth. Which was that they are indeed in love. She knew that they would be reunited eventually, and she knew that if he did go to jail, that it would be for good reason; he would have stood up for his beliefs. She knows that she has admitted pain to him, but now she is admitting happiness to him, and the only way he was able to stand that was because he understood and he felt the same way. Her change of mind and the novel's theme blend because both are about realizations and perspective. Dominique explaining this to Roark was the equivalent of Roark's speech at his trail.

11.) In his courtroom speech, Roark discusses the outstanding innovators who have carried mankind forward, arguing that it was their independent thinking--not compliance with their brothers--that enabled them to reach their monumental achievements. In terms of some of history's great independent minds--Galileo, Darwin, Pasteur, the Wright Brothers, et. al.--explain and defend Roark's thesis.

Roark is saying that individuals have conquered while second-handers have copied. Independent minds have create things, while dependant minds have simply been praised for making duplicates. He is saying that creators rise to the occasion, while followers copy stuff and expect it to be used even in a time when it is not needed. Roark is an individualist, and every part of his designs carry purpose and dignity, while say, Keeting, for example, always relied on past works and got help in almost everything he was challenged with. Roark's work has purpose and makes sense, while Keeting's work is simply praised because it was praised in the past.

12.) At the end of the novel, Roger Enright buys Cortlandt Homes and hires Roark to build it in accordance with his original design. Wynand hires Roark to erect the Wynand Building, the world's tallest skyscraper. Roark marries Dominique Francon. He has succeeded completely, and on his own terms. What point does the author make regarding the nature of success? In contrast to the evil Toohey, what point does she make regarding the nature and power of the good?

Rand makes the point that anything can happen if you have your business in order. From the beginning of the book, Roark was expected to be a failure, but he ended up winning. In various places his work was always recognized and praised, because there were other people that thought like him. She makes the point that if you stick to what you started out with, you can achieve the corresponding goal that you set. Rand makes the point that success can be achieved even in the most heinous situations.
Toohey failed at life. While he was a twisted collectivist, he was considered evil throughout the whole book. Toohey manipulated people and looked for power, while Roark used nothing but himself and looked for his buildings to be useful. Toohey was bad, and he lost. Roark was good, and he won. The power of evil can be used to manipulate and hide the truth, but with the power of good comes realizations that show the truth and everything real. Rand makes the point that the power of good is stronger than the negative power of collectivism.

Blog Three Fountainhead

1.) Gail Wynand is a brilliant individual who rose out of the slums by means of his own talent and effort. But despite his reverence for man's noblest achievements, his newspaper presents lurid, loathsome values to the most vulgar people. Why does Wynand pander in this manner? What is the meaning of such a self-betrayal?
Gail Wynand is a brilliant individual ,but yet he faces issues with excepting the events that has become in tangled in. He finds his self in an area of his life where he is putting his feelings in his own way of what his true emotions are.
3.) What is Toohey's overall purpose on The New York Banner? What is his overall purpose in regard to society in general? Dominique warns Wynand against Toohey, but he is too contemptuous of Toohey to heed her. Is Dominique correct in her assessment of Toohey's actual motives?
Toohey purpose of The New York Banner is bigger then what others may see. Often the things that are recalled is conveyed in such a way by the reader where as it is misunderstood. The articles in The New York Banner is actually tyring to give credit to the person creating the sulpctors indirectly without actually stating the facts of what she is doing.
4.) What is Dominique's motive in marrying Wynand, for becoming "Mrs. Wynand Papers"? Does it bear any similarity to her reason for marrying Keating? Does she accomplish the goal she set out to reach? Tie this discussion to the quote from Nietzsche--that nobility of soul is not to be lost--that the author cites in the "Introduction" to the 25th anniversary edition

"It is not the works, but the belief which is here decisive and determines the order of rank--to employ once more an old religious formula with a new and deeper meaning,--it is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost.--The noble soul has reverence for itself." (Friedrich Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil.)
There is a possibilty of many reasons why Dominique married Wynand. Dominique motives could be sincere or.)
2.) Toohey presents Mallory's sculpture of Dominique to Wynand in an effort to bring Dominique and Wynand together. What is the purpose of Toohey's scheme? Why does he need something to distract Wynand's attention away from his newspaper?

I believe that Toohey has multiple reasons for trying to reconnect Dominique and Wynand together. The first and foremost reason is to get the Stoneridge contract for Peter Keetin which is Dominique's husband. Dominique to me is selfish only thinking about herself tring to act as if she is concerned. I think that that she tried to lead him away so that she could enter into his columns to have the freedom and involvement to say what she wants to. Toohey is already highly respected by a majority of their society. Being that all of his intentions are to make ever one else happy as well as his self hiding from where can't see the reality of the situation.
5.) Why does Wynand fall deeply in love with Dominique? Do they share noble qualities in common? Have they made a similar mistake? Because of Wynand's undeniable virtues, do Dominique's feelings for him change?
Wynand falls for Dominique, somehow in the same way that she fell for Roark. Dominique is a person who considers herself perfect so while doing so she encourages herself to do things to justify her beliefs. Like mostly all people can find things in common with another ,but for them this is very little. They have both made mistakes, but Dominique had no choice about hers and Wynand doesn't see his as mistakes. Dominique starts begins to care for him but it hasn't developed into the same love that she has for Roark.