1) Explain in detail the reasons for Howard Roark's expulsion from the Stanton Institute of Technology. The Dean states that Roark has "a determined little group of defenders" among the faculty, while other professors "felt it their duty" to vote for his expulsion. Why do the faculty members on each side evaluate Roark and his work so differently?
2) Roark gains employment with Henry Cameron. Cameron, though a genius, is a commercial failure. Why has society rejected his work? Why does Roark nevertheless revere him? What qualities do Roark and Cameron share in common? What is the fundamental difference between them and Francon and Keating?
5 comments:
1. Some of the faculty members think Roark has potential to become a very good architect. He's very innovative and artistic. However, he often doesn't do the work he's supposed to do. Instead of designing classical buildings, he does whatever he wants because he doesn't think he needs to. Roark thinks he doesn't have anything left to learn. Also, his professor plans to resign if Roark isn't expelled.
2. Cameron is "washed up" and nobody likes his work. He's a drunk and gets very little business. Roark still reveres his innovative work and his refusal to change so people accept him. Both Roark and Cameron refuse to take instruction from anyone else because they know what kind of work they want to do. Francon and Keating care about the mainstream point of view. They do work that the people want so they can be successful and they believe that originality is not very important.
Howard Roark is a talented individual who thinks outside the box. Some of the faculty believes that Roark has unique ideas about biulding that will lead him to a successful career. Other people in the faculty think that Roark is difficult and unwilling to follow instructions. They think that he is lazy because he often times doesn't do his assigned work. They don't appove of his new ideas about achitecture and want to continue repeating impressions of classical buildings.
2. Just like Howard Roark, Henry Cameron thinks differently than common people. He created his own, unique style of building that was different than anything ever seen before. Just as society had begun to accept his work, it returned back to Classisism, leaving him practically useless. Despite his unpopularity, Roark still wants to work for him. He is attracted to working for Cameron because of his originality and the similarities that they share. They both have a unique sense of creativity and don't want to repeat impressions like Francon and Keating. Francon and Keating give the people what they think they want. They focus on Classicism and what sells. They seem to have no desire to create anything fresh and new but are in it simply for the money.
1. Some of the faculty at the school think Roark is very talented, unique and not afraid to take risks. But the majority of the school thinks he is selfish and dificult to work with. This is truly only because Roark perfers to follow his ways and knowledge of style (which is more mordernistic compared to the classical) than to what the professors teach. Which technically is rebellion upon Roarks part. Roark honestly couldn't care less to be kicked out of Stanton. He knows his styles are unique and "different." And he doesn't plan on changing them for anyone. The faculty felt it their duty because they saw Roark was different and could change society in and of itself. They do not like the idea of change, or the idea of someone besides themselves doing it.
2. People in society tell us to be unique and stand out. Yet when the individual attampts to, they are ridiculed just for doing what their told. Therefor pushing thwe idea of originality back into the normal. Causing the beautiful to become only average. And the radiant to become...nothing.
Cameron tries to do just that be himself. Do what he wants. He is similar to Roark in the fact that they only want to do what they want and aren't willing to change their styles just to fit a clients idea.
Francon and Keating are very tuned into what society wants. And thats normalcy hidden behind the gorgeous. They are willing to throw away their wants for a clients. Yet what they don't know (and Roark/Cameron do) is that they're the architects, who have more knowledge about beauty in buildings than the clients. The clients are the ones part of society who only know the normal. And wouldn't know uniquely beautiful if it hit them on the nose
*this is Crystal
1. When he was about to leave the Stanton Institute of Technology he had to submit a portfolio that showed his radical way of drawing architecture. Because of his individuality and difference of taste he was judged to be 'unfit' for the current time of architecture. One side of the faculty better embrace his new and different ways for the new interesting and new pov it brings to light on architecture while the other disapproves of it because of their inability to see beyond the past and present, unable to see beyond their narrow minded insights.
2. Society rejected Cameron work because of the odd feeling you get when you see something foreign, that's why they rejected it-it was foreign, alien, wierd. That's also the reason why Roark revere's him, because Roark can sympathize with Cameron. Roark can sympathize with Cameron's work because he feels a familiarity with Cameron as he does with his own art. They share the same radical individuality for modern architecture no one else in public seems to understand. Francon and Keating are more set in the old ways whereas Cameron and Roark are a variated architects.
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