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November 7, 2017, 4:12pm
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Oh, so now Howard Roark is an anti-hero?
Howard Roark: my take.
His great desire is to bring wonderful things into existence. His other desire is to live with personal integrity. His dilemma is how to survive.
His approach is… experimental. At first, quite bumbling. But he learns from his mistakes. That is the mark of a superior man.
He is, arguably, an asshole. But he’s up against assholes, so there’s a moral equivalence as far as that goes. Maybe he should learn some empathy, you might say. But from whom? His selfishness and insen…
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His great desire is to bring wonderful things into existence. His other desire is to live with personal integrity. His dilemma is how to survive.
His approach is… experimental. At first, quite bumbling. But he learns from his mistakes. That is the mark of a superior man.
An antihero (sometimes spelled as anti-hero) or antiheroine is a main character in a story who may lack some conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism, courage, and morality. Although antiheroes may sometimes perform actions that most of the audience considers morally correct, their reasons for doing so may not align with the audience's morality. An antihero typically exhibits one of the "dark triad" personality traits: narcissism, psychopathy, and machi Antihero is a lite...
An antihero, or antiheroine, is a protagonist who lacks conventional heroic qualities such as idealism, courage, and morality.[1][2][3][4][5] Although antiheroes may sometimes do the “right thing”, it is often for the “wrong reasons” and because it serves their self-interest rather than being driven by moral convictions.[6]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antihero
A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, just that you’re wishy-washy.
