Existentialism Essay

Does Personality Exist in the World Around Us? Do you ever question yourself what the meaning and purpose is behind some of the most complex areas of life and possibly life after death? In the 2004 movie, I Heart Huckabees, an existential detective couple who is married work together to help people find the answers to all of their existential questions. In particular, the two existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe, set out on a mission to help a young adult by the name of Albert…

One’s true nature is always concealed. Behind the veneer of societal expectations, belief systems, and self-regard, there lies a true character. This genuine disposition that exists is usually hidden because rejects and defies what is deemed good or moral. Oftentimes, the authentic self is hidden away to conceal one’s weaknesses. However, it is impossible to ignore the fundamental truth about oneself. In Othello by William Shakespeare, Othello’s two conflicting personas lead to the play’s…

Empathy is a crucial component in the exposition of Stalin’s regime, satire fails to induce this feeling, but realism does. Through Ivan Denisovich, the audience learns to feel empathy and sympathy towards those in the gulag camps. This by far is the most impactful way to showcase the failures and actions of a regime such as Stalin’s. We as the audience see that guards, motivated by fear, beat and assault prisoners, something that is absent in the satirical text of Animal farm. We can also see…

“Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Mirror” by Haruki Murakami are both expressed as the struggle of the protagonist’s understanding of their own imagination and the identification of the difference between their thoughts wrapped with illusion and the reality, but having different techniques and messages. James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a book with theme of desire of freedom from the reality where protagonist’s not acknowledge. In the text, the…

Tentative Interpretation of The False Gems The False Gems was written by Guy de Maupassant in 1883.“Maupassant is considered as one of the fathers of the modern short story”. ( wikipedia ) He always depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Readers also can find some similarities in The False Gems. Writer could invisibly finish the objective and actual description and the short story only uses thousands of words and makes the plot twists…

In his essays titled “On the Vanity of Existence”, “The World as Will and Representation”, and “On the sufferings of the world”, Arthur Schopenhauer discusses the inevitability of suffering in life, what causes it, and what we can do to ease it. In this case the suffering refers to our constant un-satisfaction with our lives because of our need to always have and want more. Throughout this essay I am going to be answering the questions of why suffering is inevitable and what we can do to ease…

Under any given society there are somethings unsaid. Under any person is a soul suppressed. It is a silence that screams a louder reality. In John Patrick Shanley's play ¨Doubt¨ in efforts to reveal a sad truth about our society. The author proposes the idea that repression does exists in our society, be it due do the actions of other individuals or society as a whole. Repression has had a profound impact on women in societies throughout our history. Set in 1964,the time of many atrocities…

Have you ever judge someone because of their appearance, social status, or handicaps? Did find once you learned more about them they are completely different from your initial judgments, and the things you saw as flaws in them have actually helped them in aspects? One major take away from understanding the focus of “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, is that you should never judge somebody or make presumptions about who they are or their lifestyle until you’ve truly understood what it is like to see…

“Auto Wreck” reveals what its poet considers to be the terrible secret of modern life: the creeping indifference toward technological determinism, the simple violence of machine against human being in which everyone participates by failing to be troubled or moved by such disasters as automobile wrecks. The tone of the poem is likely to be melodious which an imagism verse is. It is a short, lyrical narrative poem. The poem is described in first person narrative. The poet in short is trying to…

Fear traps us. It prevents us from growing up. It prevents us from living happy, satisfied, fulfilled, free lives. However, fear is a choice. You actually choose to be afraid and you can deliberately choose to live without it. This is the case in this short story were a teenage boy decides to face his fears. In this essay, the short story will be analyzed and interpreted through the following points: the setting, a characterization of Eddie and Angie, point of view and the main theme. The…