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Really!? I couldn't stand Dominique, but I guess I'm not a huge fan of any of Rand's females. Roark is one of my all time favorite fictional characters though.
Dominique had a lot of personal growth throughout the book, and I know many people disliked her character- but I did like her. She went from a malevolent world view and transformed into a man worshiping benevolent world view during the process of the book. Dominique was also an amusing troll in the Banner which I found highly entertaining. I personally enjoyed Roark and Dominique's relationship throughout the Fountainhead watching her progress. Their relationship was all about passion based on a connection that stemmed from physical and intellectual attraction. It was two individualists who represented the highest reverence in man admiring each other for the right reasons coming together. I almost wish there was more time in the book to see Mr. and Mrs. Roark happy together, as the happy ending for them is somewhat short once they have both achieved virtuous philosophies and a loving relationship and eventual marriage. That is just nitpicking though.
My favorite couple in a novel is Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden from Atlas Shrugged. My second favorite was the same as yours, Mr Southwick. I love the description of what Dagny wanted in a man: "“She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on earth . . . To find a consciousness like her own, who would be the meaning of her world, as she would be of his... A man who existed only in her knowledge of her capacity for an emotion she had never felt, but would have given her life to experience . . . and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
That's an amazing quote, Gerald. I love that.
On level with John Galt and industrialist Hank Rearden is the amazing Dagny Taggart. She is smart, shrewd, fearless... a woman enjoying all the perks of leadership as CEO of Taggart Railroad Lines, a position she and her brother inherited upon the death of their father, and of which Dagny ultimately took full control when her brother's foolish decisions nearly plunge the company into ruin. Dagny Taggart is a woman before her time -- an icon of what women were destined to become three decades later. Author Ayn Rand saw the future.
Isn't it obvious, S.W.? I love powerful women.
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Really!? I couldn't stand Dominique, but I guess I'm not a huge fan of any of Rand's females. Roark is one of my all time favorite fictional characters though.
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Dominique had a lot of personal growth throughout the book, and I know many people disliked her character- but I did like her. She went from a malevolent world view and transformed into a man worshiping benevolent world view during the process of the book. Dominique was also an amusing troll in the Banner which I found highly entertaining. I personally enjoyed Roark and Dominique's relationship throughout the Fountainhead watching her progress. Their relationship was all about passion based on a connection that stemmed from physical and intellectual attraction. It was two individualists who represented the highest reverence in man admiring each other for the right reasons coming together. I almost wish there was more time in the book to see Mr. and Mrs. Roark happy together, as the happy ending for them is somewhat short once they have both achieved virtuous philosophies and a loving relationship and eventual marriage. That is just nitpicking though.
My favorite couple in a novel is Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden from Atlas Shrugged. My second favorite was the same as yours, Mr Southwick. I love the description of what Dagny wanted in a man: "“She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on earth . . . To find a consciousness like her own, who would be the meaning of her world, as she would be of his... A man who existed only in her knowledge of her capacity for an emotion she had never felt, but would have given her life to experience . . . and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
That's an amazing quote, Gerald. I love that.
On level with John Galt and industrialist Hank Rearden is the amazing Dagny Taggart. She is smart, shrewd, fearless... a woman enjoying all the perks of leadership as CEO of Taggart Railroad Lines, a position she and her brother inherited upon the death of their father, and of which Dagny ultimately took full control when her brother's foolish decisions nearly plunge the company into ruin. Dagny Taggart is a woman before her time -- an icon of what women were destined to become three decades later. Author Ayn Rand saw the future.
Isn't it obvious, S.W.? I love powerful women.
