Morality In Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

Morals, loyalty and self respect. That is what Fountainhead exposes in people. The good and the bad of each of it's fictional characters. Within the binding of this paperback book, the attitudes of characters is spelled out for the reader, but the reader's perception of each character determines their thoughts towards each and every one. The villain, hero and heroine. But to each person that thought of who is right and who is wrong may change and that is all due to their morality.

The morals of one man are different from that of another. We are brought up that way. Our mothers and fathers teach us their morals and we either take them on or brush them off. Good or bad. Though these morals are very similar to one another, no one can argue with the ideas of another person.

He does not let others make or even help make his decisions. He believes that is in the wrong and looks down on people who do that, or rather doesn't see them as necessary in his life. Morality is what drives us to make our decisions in life, and so Roark here, lets no one get in his way. Or rather ignores them if they decide to arise. The morality of his character is that he is right against a world that wishes to say he is wrong. Selfishness, one of 6 planks in objectivism. He has the morality of selfishness. But when asked the question on what morals are, we are left to sit and ponder for hours upon hours. Of course the simple answer is morals are what is right or wrong, but then we are left to wonder exactly what is considered so. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith, he begins the book be speaking of selfishness. “How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.” (page one, TMS) Though Roark might disagree with that statement. He would