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![]() ![]() ![]() In the novel, Peter Keating and Howard Roark attend Stanton Institute of Technology together. Howard Roark’s speech in The Fountainhead is nevertheless an excellent example of epideictic oratory. Roark’s speech aligns closely with the tenets of epideictic oratory, despite being held in a courtroom where one might expect a more forensic style of defense. His speech is given in a courtroom, in place of his defense against the act of which he has been accused. So states Howard Roark, protagonist of Ayn Rand’s classic novel, The Fountainhead. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need” (Rand 684). “I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. ![]()
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