Existentialism Essay

Existential theory is a theory which in my opinion you need an open heart and mind to be able to fully understand. Existential theory concepts are great and many of the aspects of this theory I agree with. When looking into this theory the main aspect that I appreciated was that a lot of the values were the same as the ones I have. According to our textbook, the existential tradition definition is seeking a balance between recognizing the limits and tragic dimensions of human existence on one…

Postmodernism is closely related to individualism, in fact, individualism is one of the many concepts that is in postmodernism. From the view of postmodernists, facts and truths are risen from social subjectivity because experiences and science reasoning are the thing of the past. While this might seem ordinary for many young adults or teens, this postmodernist concept and ideal is what has been keeping experts and mature adults up at night. With the birth of the internet, postmodernist’s…

Inside Albert Camus’s The Stranger, Camus portrays Meursault as an absurd hero. Meursault was attached to the physical world, and he was different from a normal individual. Meursault would have a direct impact from the “shimmering heat” (17) of the sun, which ultimately caused him to “squeeze his hand around [his] revolver” (59) and kill an Arab. As a result, Meursault had to live in jail, and he had to change his routine. He would spend “sixteen to eighteen hours a day” (79) sleeping, and his…

While some women in society go against the myth of caregivers and weak individuals, Women are qualified as other in our social status because women are viewed to be submissive, physically weak, and are meant to be healers. Which is why I believe that de Beauvoir is morally and ethically correct, by believing the idea of the social myth behind woman is flawed. As stated in De Beauvoir’s book “The Second Sex”, is mainly about the social role of woman. During the time she published the book she…

Didi and Gogo express a kind of egalitarianism whereas the Lucky-Pozzo couple is a study in the master-slave relation. But in a different way, the love-hate relation is operative in both. Didi and Gogo cannot help encountering each other in what looks like a scarcely populated earth. They want to drift apart but a strange love and care bind them. On the other hand, Pozzo is mortified by Lucky 's passivity sometimes. There is a dependency at work here too. When Lucky speaks his thought aloud, his…

Why You Shouldn't Be An Artist Or Should You? Why You Shouldn't Be An Artist is a short film directed by Simon Cade that explores some of the reasons a person should not become an artist. In listing these many cons of having a creative career, the film actually comes up with a monumental reason for creating and putting art out into the world. The questions gradually become a type of answer in trying to decide whether art is worth all the trouble and inconvenience it demands at times.…

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other – outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for (Leguin). This quote is best to describe the attitudes displayed in several of the writings that we have covered in this class. When we look at Irving, Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe’s writings we can clearly see men who were concerned with their needs and desires above anyone else…

Defamiliarization in Mohsen Namjoo: A Marcusian Study of “Reza Khan” Estrangement: a short overview Mikics defines defamiliarization (estrangement) and as an example he cites Fredric Jameson, which is his accounts of Studying Gulliver’s Travels. It states: Defamiliarization in Russian, ostranenie: a term from the Russian formalist school of criticism, active in the early twentieth century. […] According to the Russian formalists, literary art devotes itself to the making strange (the…

There is no definition of life. Life has no meaning. The meaningfulness of our lives are chosen with the aid of what we sense and revel in or that is dictated and assigned to us by others. The ceasing of our lifestyles is not able to be foreseen and could not be confined by such things as destiny. Those are the thoughts and philosophies of people who trust existence to be non-teleological. A well-known literary exhibit of a non-teleologist is a person named John Steinbeck. Through the entirety…

Every person who takes creative writing has to make a statement about hum in condition. The statement of the writer about humanity and human life can never be completely objective. It usually has a dash of subjectivity in it. As a writer can never be absolutely objective, so he can never be absolutely subjective. he is either more subjective than objective or more objective than subjective. In a way subjectivity is welcome. It is subjectivity, the way the writer looks at the human condition, and…