Relevance Of Existentialism In Hamlet

Existentialism is a philosophical theory that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. Existentialists believe that we, as human beings, have no purpose of our existence. Jean-Paul Sartre says "Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chances." We don’t have a real reason for where life takes us, but death is the only ticket out. The internet Encyclopedia of philosophy agrees with this theory as well because they said, "Among the most famous ideas associated with existentialism is that of 'absurdity '. Human existence might be described as 'absurd ' in one of the following senses. First, many existentialists argued that nature as a whole has no …show more content…
67-68 " ' He has moods. ' ' of moroseness? ' ' Madness. And yet. ' ' Quite ' ' For instance. ' 'He talks to himself, which might be madness. ' 'if he didn’t talk sense. Which he does. ' ' Which suggests the opposite ' … ' Why is he mad? ' 'I don’t know. ' " ordered by the King and Queen, Rose and Guil were on a mission to find out why Hamlet has been acting really unusual and with this purpose they find out nothing. Rose and Guil argue between weather he 's gone mad and talks to himself, to him not talking sense to himself. Even though Rose and Guil know what they are trying to accomplish, they both still do not make any progress towards their mission and are back at square one. In life sometimes trying to establish what 's not adding up, even with a purpose to find out why, will not always help you find out what you want to know. In this part of the book Stoppard tried to prove that people believe they have a purpose but even their purpose doesn’t always help them in