Isolation In The Fountainhead

Many characters in movies, books, and stories isolate themselves from other characters. Consequently, they feel as though being alone is a better alternative to sharing their feelings with others. Many books read this semester exemplified themes consisting of isolation. Some characters isolate themselves based on personal beliefs, while others were tethered to someone or something. The people who were tethered to someone or something, many times isolated themselves from others based on what they were tethered to. In the fountainhead, Roark and Dominique are masters of isolation. Roark commits to his internal beliefs over most client’s and architect’s. He believes that staying true to his own ideas is more important than subjecting himself at the hands of others. When Roark falls in love with Dominique, he isolates himself from her. Along the same lines, Dominique isolates herself from others also. She chooses to destroy and isolate herself from the things she loves. As the story progresses, she even goes to the extreme of marrying

Celia Foote, in a way, is forced into isolation. She doesn’t fit in the way the others do. Originally Celia is isolated when she moves away from her hometown of Sugarditch. Being “the new kid” in a town like Jackson, Mississippi is difficult. On many accounts, Celia tries to de-isolate herself by trying to fit in with Hilly and Elizabeth. The high society women of Jackson are very good at isolating women out of their “group”. Time and time again women are isolated out of bridge club. Another example of isolation in The Help is the segregated group of African American Maids. These women are isolated from common things. They aren’t allowed to ride parts of the bus, use the normal library, and even the normal bathrooms. These women didn’t isolate themselves, society placed them into these divisions. Towards the end of the novel, the maids begin to break out of the isolated