Albert Bandura

bare tree develops into having “four or five leaves.” (47). This creates uncertainty among the time that has passed in the audience. In addition, the boy also calls Vladimir “Mister Albert…?” (39) many times leading to the question: does the boy just not know Vladimir’s name or is Godot actually looking for an Albert and not Vladimir or Estragon at all? We are prevented from ever understanding the play because it is absurdist and uncertainty is everywhere. These parallels are essential to…

Though brief and comedic, Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit” offers insight into the basic ideas of his philosophy about freedom vs confinement. Sartre is able to portray the applicability of this philosophy to daily life though the commonplace setting of the work and the diversity of the basic character types found throughout the play. The main principles behind this one of Sartre’s philosophies are detailed through the three main characters, Cradeau Inez and Estelle, and their confinement to a…

Heart of Darkness is a modern novel written by Joseph Conrad. It is one of the finest works of Conrad which shows his power as a writer of great luminosity, passion and complexity. The story Conrad depicts in ‘Heart of Darkness’ is based on the real backdrop that happened during the time of ‘Leopold II of Belgium’. The second king, Leopold II set an eye on Congo and colonized Africa. He brings out the sufferance of the people of Congo under the rule of Leopold II. People were enslaved, exploited…

In the words of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, one of the most renowned Latin American authors, “The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, only serves to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.” These words echo throughout one of Márquez’s most brilliant works, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, published in 1981. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is infused with magical elements, which contradict the journalistic nature of the novel. The result is a suspended…

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French Philosopher, novelist and literary critic. He was born on the 21st of June, 1905. During his life, he was one of the important figures in the philosophy of existentialism and also one of the prominent individuals in the 20th century French philosophy and Marxism. Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy which is basically centred on the analysis of existence, freedom and choice. It is the understanding that humans define their purpose in life and try to make…

Introduction The Time Machine and the Sound of Thunder are both science fiction stories. Their central plots are about Time Travel. Compare and contrast these two stories. This assessment has asked me to compare and contrast the stories of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. In this assignment the differences in language and characters will be compared and contrasted. The genre of the short story will be contrasted with the short novel. The different ways the…

1.3 Jean Paul Sartre Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was one of the leading figures in 20th Century philosophy. A French intellectual, writer and activist, he is best known for his pioneering ideas on existentialism. He wrote a number of books, including the highly influential Being and Nothingness, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964, though he turned it down. Like the work of most other philosophers, Sartre’s contribution to the discipline is difficult to condense, if one must…

French-Algerian columnist, Albert Camus was otherwise called a dramatist, writer, philosophical writer, and Nobel laureate. Born on 7 November, 1913 in French Algeria, Camus started his abstract vocation as a political writer, and additionally an on-screen character, chief and dramatist in his local place, Algeria. Later on, he wound up plainly required in the Resistance, as France in those days was involved amid the Second World War and after this amid the era of 1944-47; he likewise filled in…

Professor Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who deeply cares studying about the scientific and logic aspects of things, has no feelings for others or himself other than when and has no manners. He does not at all care about other feelings, has no manners and will say whatever he wants to no matter what. Under Myer Briggs, he is an ENTJ as he posses the trait of extroversion, intuition, thinking and judging. An extroverted person is outgoing, talkative, can easily talk with strangers, and…

The theatre of the absurd is a word coined by the Hungarian critic Martin Esslin to describe the works written during 1950’s and 1960’s.The word ‘absurd’ was first used by French philosopher Albert Camus in his work The Myth Of Sisyphus in which represents the existence of humans as meaningless. Also, Camus believed that since human beings cannot provide a rational explanation for the existence of the universe, hence it can be seen as meaningless, shallow and absurd. Martin Esslin described the…