A Tragic Character

Term Paper Title	A Tragic Character
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A Tragic Character

Trish Griffing
AP English
Oct. 5, 1998

     Objectivism, a  philosophy  on  life  created  by  Ayn Rand, states  that  �man

must  live  for  his  own  sake, with  the  achievement  of  his  own  happiness  as  the

highest  moral  purpose  of  his  life.�  In  her  novels, Ayn Rand  illustrates  men  at

different  levels  of  perfection  according  to  her  philosophy.  Ayn Rand�s  first  novel,

The Fountainhead, contains  many  excellent  examples  of  men  that  are  not  ideal

because  they  are  not  happy  with  themselves.  The  most  tragic  character  in  The

Fountainhead  is  Gail Wynand, a  great  newspaper  publisher.  Wynand  is  the  most

tragic  character  in  the  novel  because  he  is  not  happy  with  his  accomplishments,

he  makes  himself  suffer  unnecessarily, and  he  is  ashamed  of  himself.

     Gail Wynand  is  not  happy  with  his  accomplishments.  He  is  a  self-made

man  that  came  from  the  gutter  and  had  to  fight  his  way  to  the  top  by  being

ruthless  and  persistent.  Wynand  has  the  potential  to  be  a  great  man, but  he  lets

himself  conform  to  society  when  he  opens  his  first  newspaper, the  Banner.  The

Banner  gives  people  what  they  want;  murder, arson, rape, and  corruption.  When

Wynand  realizes  that  he  is  not  happy  with  his  accomplishments  he  decides  to

destroy  men  that  do  have  integrity.  Wynand  makes  Dwight Carson, a  young  writer

devoted  to  the  conviction  of  �the  individual  against  the  masses�, write  a  column

in  the  Banner  about  �the  superiority  of  th...

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