7/2/2023 0 Comments Peter keating the fountainheadRoark wants him to understand the nature of his actions – the fact that, throughout his entire life, all Keating has been is a parasite. He is a broken man, willing to do anything to once again be king in the eyes of others. This is exactly what Keating has become when the novel reaches this scene. The man without a soul can be described using Steven Mallory’s words as only - “a succession of adjectives fading in and out of an unformed mass”. True success is achieved only when one realizes that the soul is the most sacred possession one has, that it is something to be held “above all things” and if necessary “against all men”. Without the soul, there is no ‘self’ left, nothing that one can claim to be his own. There is no greater sacrifice than the sacrifice of the soul. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that’s much harder?” he is only stating an indisputable fact of life. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. When Roark tells Keating, “To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world.
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