Other than the theme absurdity, Jean Paul Sartre also evolved the idea of alienation into Existentialism. The theme alienation is displayed in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. As Hamlet is struggling with the loss of his father, his friends and family start to betray him and leave him to feel as if he only has himself to trust. “Ay, so, God, be wi’ ye! Now I am alone. O! What a rogue and peasant slave am I: It is not monstrous that this player here, but in a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his soul so to his own conceit that from her working all his visage wann’d tears in his eyes, distraction in ‘s aspect, a broken voice, and his whole function suiting with forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! What’s Hecuba
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“The variety of interpretations suggests that perhaps different experiences are being discussed or that the ratio of interpretation to experience may be too high, but stress on the extreme and the exceptional experience is common to all Existentialism” (MacIntyre). The woman expresses at the beginning of the story that her husband, John, diagnosed her with nervous depression, hence why they moved out to the country for her to recover. However, moving her out of her norm brought unease and discomfort from the start, then leaving her isolated in a room all day made the circumstances more severe. The woman reveals that she enjoys writing and that was a comfort for her, but again her husband didn’t want her to express her thoughts. “I don’t know why I should write this. I don’t want to. I don’t feel able. And I know John would think it absurd. But I must say what I feel and think in some way--it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than relief” (Gilman). The woman recently gave birth to a baby boy who she is not allowed to see either. For a mother not having the opportunity to form the proper bond between her and the infant can cause a lot of unhappiness and anxiety for the mother due to the numerous hormones running through her …show more content…
Due to all the changes going on in Hamlet’s life, he struggles forming the right idea of what the real meaning of his life is and anxiety starts to take over. “...Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; no more; and, by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, ‘tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; to sleep; perchance to dream: ay there’s the rub; for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause….For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,..” (Ham. 3, 1, 56-68, 70-71). Going through the loss of his father was hard enough, but due to others in his life made the circumstances a little more difficult. Hamlet battled the thought of death frequently due to the loads of anxiety that his family and friends caused him. As Hamlet starts to question his life and existence it will bring on anxiety, which won’t allow him to ever feel at ease with himself. For an Existentialists their perspective on anxiety is that it will never go away. Hamlet is great example, due to the fact that anxiety drives him to his
“The variety of interpretations suggests that perhaps different experiences are being discussed or that the ratio of interpretation to experience may be too high, but stress on the extreme and the exceptional experience is common to all Existentialism” (MacIntyre). The woman expresses at the beginning of the story that her husband, John, diagnosed her with nervous depression, hence why they moved out to the country for her to recover. However, moving her out of her norm brought unease and discomfort from the start, then leaving her isolated in a room all day made the circumstances more severe. The woman reveals that she enjoys writing and that was a comfort for her, but again her husband didn’t want her to express her thoughts. “I don’t know why I should write this. I don’t want to. I don’t feel able. And I know John would think it absurd. But I must say what I feel and think in some way--it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than relief” (Gilman). The woman recently gave birth to a baby boy who she is not allowed to see either. For a mother not having the opportunity to form the proper bond between her and the infant can cause a lot of unhappiness and anxiety for the mother due to the numerous hormones running through her …show more content…
Due to all the changes going on in Hamlet’s life, he struggles forming the right idea of what the real meaning of his life is and anxiety starts to take over. “...Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; no more; and, by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, ‘tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; to sleep; perchance to dream: ay there’s the rub; for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause….For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,..” (Ham. 3, 1, 56-68, 70-71). Going through the loss of his father was hard enough, but due to others in his life made the circumstances a little more difficult. Hamlet battled the thought of death frequently due to the loads of anxiety that his family and friends caused him. As Hamlet starts to question his life and existence it will bring on anxiety, which won’t allow him to ever feel at ease with himself. For an Existentialists their perspective on anxiety is that it will never go away. Hamlet is great example, due to the fact that anxiety drives him to his