world of The Fountainhead expresses zero tolerence for free speech. The paper exist for the collective and praise everything but heroic ventures into the new frontiers. Society encourages the conservative while it condone aspiring changes.Gail Wynand's falter is due to carelessness in maintaining his integrity. His business etiquette involves sacrificing himself and dedicating his whole life's work as a service to the people, for the people. He suppresses the outcries of his conscience, acting only on the behalf of strengthening public relations and obtaining higher profits. The man owns his fortune, but he did not own himself. The public mob lay claim to his existence. His fortune is a mere donation from the public in return for the service that he provides them.Wynand suffers internal pain, a pain unbearable due to disappointment and a sour appointment with reality. He dare challenges the public in a duel, wasting his efforts in exercising a power that he never own. The sudden impact caught the victim off guard because he never bother to ask and no one care to answer. In an effort to reclaim himself, Wynand risked his fortune in a fight against the public for something which he believes and lost. He is force to forfeit his newspaper empire, a life long dream of a man who never was. In the end, he realizes too late that it is easier to move imilar to an engine over heated, Toohey is too power hungry, in turn his eminent downfall. He knows quite well that he is incapable of achieving true power, so his conscience convulges and lash back at the individual boulders, then to budge entire mountains.To every situation there exist two extremes, presumably the black and the white. The identity of the black is usually mark with a stamp of disapproval and render forbidden deep within the abyss. In the world of The Fountainhead, Foul plays the dead man's hand. Ayn Rand is a towering deity who rules with an iron fist She refuses to t...
