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Central female characters portrayed as weak-minded, submissive, exercise an empty form of power <br> | Central female characters portrayed as weak-minded, submissive, exercise an empty form of power <br> | ||
Construction and sex evoke the same emotions in Roark - power, control, domination, phallic symbol of modernist skyscraper<br> | Construction and sex evoke the same emotions in Roark - power, control, domination, phallic symbol of modernist skyscraper<br> | ||
"Rape" scene - likened to Roark's first experience of walking through a construction which he designed. <br> | |||
Catherine => weak, infantile, "we wouldn't love you if you were graceful as a duchess" (p245) |
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Peter Keating / Howard Roark
Protagonists rewarded for their ego, narcissism, selfishness
Central female characters portrayed as weak-minded, submissive, exercise an empty form of power
Construction and sex evoke the same emotions in Roark - power, control, domination, phallic symbol of modernist skyscraper
"Rape" scene - likened to Roark's first experience of walking through a construction which he designed.
Catherine => weak, infantile, "we wouldn't love you if you were graceful as a duchess" (p245)