Existentialism Essay

In Crime and Punishment, imagery and deliberate usage of words engulfs the reader in an atmosphere where many characters experience suffering to the point of evoking pity from the reader’s sympathetic attitude or sense of superiority. Through both direct and indirect characterization, Dostoevsky intimately acquaints the reader with diverse characters who are likely very different from themselves. Nonetheless, not all characters are shown pity equally, as illustrated through the examples of…

Imagine a world without creativity. Imagine a world without inspiration. Imagine a world without self expression. These elements of individualism appear from what are known as the arts. Making their first appearance in youth education, the arts are vital to a child’s growth and development. But as time rolls on, the arts have been trashed, beaten, and thrown into a worthless junk pile. Schools are treating the arts like they are lambs to the slaughter. The next big hit songwriter could be…

The concept of death has no specific meaning. There is no way to know about it. Although the finds of the death process has an edge on the rest of them. No one will think about death, and it all starts and ends and thinking about it from a position of ignorance of a person. The concept of death has no content. Without any images will be generated in our minds to think about death. The concept of death is a use for life, while death itself has no use for anything. All we can say about death can…

Have you ever thought about how one can truly achieve happiness, or simply, what is happiness? Can you you chose to be content or does it just happen? Well, John Stuart Mill, a autobiography writer, believes that contentment can not be found, if one seeks for it. In Mill’s own words, “The only chance it to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, a the purpose of life.” In the autobiography, “Chapter V, A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward” by John Stuart Mill, Mill claimed…

The myth of Sisyphus is one that explores topics of death, consequence, purpose, and consciousness. According to the Greek myth, Sisyphus is condemned to roll a rock up to the top of a mountain, only to have the rock roll back down to the bottom after each attempt to reach the top. The gods explicitly chose this punishment for sisyphus because they precvivied that an eternity of futile labor is one of the worst punishments one can acquire. Sisyphus's fate can only be perceived as a tragic once…

To begin, in philosophy one must possess the ability to identify, translate, and critique the arguments in Plato’s Five Dialogues. With this possession, in Plato’s Apology (29A) the source of a philosophical issue can surely be evaluated. One’s goal is to reconnoiter the argument through worthy logical reasoning and thus, formulate a position that considers the argument’s validity. Now, with Plato’s Apology 29A, it is sought out that death is evil due to the factor of thinking one is wise, when…

This description alone is enough to warrant some type of worry about the boy. He describes the girls that walk in, as if he has never laid his eyes on a girl before in his life. He does this throughout the story. He follows each of their movement and never takes his eyes off of them. He like the boy in Araby just totally disregards everything except for the three females in the store. Now before I go judging the protagonist for his action, I will first admit I am guilty of staring at attractive…

Pablo’s change is underscored by his use, and eventual misuse of free will. Initially when Pablo is brought to the hospital prison, his Fascist captors want him to tell where friend and fighting partner Gris is. He has that choice of either give up his friend or not give him up and die. He chooses not to, though he could lie, or do like Juan and protest innocence, but all he says is he doesn’t know where Gris is. It’s after Juan and Tom are executed that the Fascists make Pablo an offer. He can…

Discovery can be initiated through a re-examination of the world which can lead to greater understandings of others and improved moral judgement. Oscar Wilde depicts this through the Prince statue’s and the swallow’s conversion from self-indulgence to altruism upon confronting the town’s poverty. Due to circumstances unique to different social classes, individuals may become oblivious to the suffering of others, and therefore have a limited understanding of the world. This is symbolised through…

In Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays and Nagel’s The Absurd, Camus and Nagel offer both differentiating and relating thoughts on the absurd. While they both agree that the absurd arises from a clash, they differ in what the clash consists of. For Nagel, the absurd is a clash within us, whereas for Camus the conflict is between the human mind and the world. Furthermore, they have contrasting viewpoints on suicides in regards to an escape of the absurd, and they differ in their…