Nihilism

about the death of Lady Macbeth, he slips into a conflict between his sadness and nihilism. These points together will prove that Macbeth’s inner conflict is indeed the leading cause of his downfall. To begin with, the murder of Duncan wasn’t without complications. When Macbeth heard the prophecies of the three witches and realises that there…

attempts are made to support our moral claims. Although some do pose more significance than others, philosophers have to look at all the perspectives and views of each foundation. These foundations of morality include realist views, relativism, and nihilism. The validity of the views of each claim depends on multiple factors. Since in philosophy one sees the three foundation of morality, there is a way to identify what facts support ones moral claims. In realist views, one takes moral facts to…

manage to have similar viewpoints. Both Hegel and Nietzsche utilize their atheistic views, nihilism, and belief in naturalistic forces to explain their theories on metaphysics. A segment of metaphysics focuses on the existence of a supreme…

One of the most famous speeches of Shakespeare, the soliloquy in the sophisticated play Macbeth had dramatizes the psychological impact upon Macbeth’s ravenous hunger for power and bring up the major theme of the play; fate and free will. Fate and free will is a prevalent theme in many of Shakespeare’s plays, fate may dictate what will happen, but It is mainly base on a man’s freewill.This dramatic soliloquy is used to reveal the personal thoughts and emotion of Macbeth on a clear recognition of…

These include themes such as anti-war, anti-consumerism, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, anti- authoritarianism, anarchism, nihilism and existentialism. Additionally, the components of human identity and behaviours such as greed, poverty, hypocrisy, boredom, despair and absurdity. For example, Crayola Shooter created in 2011, Banksy creates awareness for the loss of childhood…

characters with discovering the truths in life whereas religion creates lies. This contrast between the two themes makes readers question how to react to the book. One end of the spectrum, is religion being represented by Bokononism, Christianity, and Nihilism. All three of those religions have extremely different ideas, beliefs, and stories, which make the whole story more complex. The other side of the spectrum is how truthful and uncomplicated the world of science could be. When Doctor…

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ both divulge into the theme of faith and doubt. The presentation of faith differs respectively between the authors in alignment with their contrasting perceptions of nihilism versus Christian divinity, as does the use of doubt as a manipulative device in opposition to the intrinsic doubt of nature itself. Doubt and faith are primarily introduced in two different lights. Stoker adopts the convention of the supernatural to…

Crime and Punishment: Nineteenth Century Russia from Dostoevsky’s Perspective Crime and Punishment is one of the most recognizable titles in literature. The novel’s author, Fyodor Dostoevsky, is highly respected. Crime and Punishment is regarded as his first true masterpiece. He went on to write several others, such as his famous work The Brothers Karamazov (“Crime and Punishment”). While Dostoevsky was writing Crime and Punishment, Russia was going through a period of social, political, and…

From my understanding of the reading of chapter 3 “Why Standard Mappings and Theorizing Don’t Work, Pinn’s main premise is the correlation between African American history and African American religion. According to the text, Joseph Washington claimed that “In the beginning was the black church and the black church was in the black community, and the black church was in the black community”. (42) That statement alone insinuates that without the African American history, there is no African…

Hypocrisy is rampant in human nature - we say one thing and do another; we believe one thing and renounce it with one event. This condition seems amplified in Dostoevsky’s Underground Man – a man of ‘high conscious’ and intellect. “To be overly conscious,” the Underground Man writes, “is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness” (Dostoevsky 2006, p.6). This extreme state of consciousness is the undoing for the Man; perhaps even the main cause of his paradoxical nature. The unreliability of the…