Jean-Paul Sartre

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…

what it is used for, this is how he proves that “Essence Precedes Existence”. He states “If existence truly precedes essence, man is responsible for what he is” (Sartre 124). He explains how “Anguish” results from “Sheer weight of our responsibility, from knowing that in choosing ourselves we choose a blueprint for all others” (Sartre 121). Forlornness is a consequence of knowing that there is no god or higher power to justify the choices of men, therefore we alone must choose our being. He…

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…

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…

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…

Existentialism is the philosophical notion that existence precedes essence. We are born first and then decide what meaning our lives will have. Existentialism maintains, that our choices determine our nature and that there is no predisposition of what each human is born to do. Humans, according to existentialist beliefs, are condemned to be free. With freedom comes consequences. Since humans are free to make their own decisions, we are each responsible for our own consequences. Letting others…

Existentialism is a philosophy that the choices individual makes should be responsible for it and should accept their own act without consent of other people. Its beliefs are centred on the idea of finding the meaning of life through different choices and situations. In the view of existentialist, this world is meaningless and absurd. It is the way that let external factor affect us that determine who we are. As individuals we have freedom to make our own choices and that’s what life's all…

than punishment. (2) Despite Inspector Javert’s serve obsession with finding Jean Valjean, the circumstances under which this is achieved forces Javert to examine his own perception of justice. (3) Jean Valjean’s numerous selfless actions conflict with Javert’s label of him as a dangerous convict. (4) Javert’s fixation on punishment does not allow any room for compassion, and to his mind, the only way he can show mercy to Jean Valjean is to punish and destroy himself. (5) By illustrating the…

The role that perspective plays in influencing one’s fate The poem “The Sun Rising” by John Donne and the poem “This Be The Verse” by Philip Larkin are both literary texts that address the capability of man over controlling the forces that shape his life, in essence his ability to control his fate. The speaker of each poem however expresses a radically different opinion as to the extent one can influence the happenings of the world around him. In the “Sun Rising” the speaker states that the…

I’m An Ordinary Man - My Fair lady Analysis “Humans see what they want to see.” ― Rick Riordan. A human gets what he desires, and throws away what he/she finds apathy. It’s in his/her nature, to choose his/her own prospect, by listening to his/her own ego. In the poetic song "I'm an Ordinary Man" there’s a gender, the man, that’s condemning the opposite gender, the women, which is showcased through a sense of foreboding. The poetic song “I'm an ordinary man” is based on a divergent perception…