Cicoletti was my English teacher for grades 10th-12th . He was a kind man who had us look at the philosophical side of literature. Existentialism is a great example of this because it deals with you creating your own reality and deciding to make a positive change or a negative one on this “nonsensical” world. Albert Camus’ novel “The Stranger” is one of the existentialism books I read. I learned a little Greek mythology and was able to understand the definition of a tragic hero. Joseph Conrad’s novel
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Uncertainty Is the Only Certainty Samuel Beckett is known to be among the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Beckett’s comedic and tragic outlook on human nature was represented in his works’‚ and for that‚ he has given his readers reason to call them masterpieces. Waiting For Godot is one of his most well-known plays‚ famous for its odd humor and cryptic plot. Literary uncertainty was first brought to the stage with Waiting for Godot‚ and this element made
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called The Myth of Sisyphus. In this essay‚ Camus refined Kierkegaard’s ideas about existentialism into a new philosophy called absurdism. Camus’ most famous work‚ The Stranger‚ goes into greater detail as the main character struggles with many of the ideas behind absurdism. In this essay‚ I will examine the pillars of absurdism using The Stranger‚ in an attempt to offer a different way to live life. In The Stranger‚ Mersault takes absurdist ideas and uses them as the easy way out‚ instead of attempting
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arrival. Existentialists command for people to attempt to detach from death in a personal sense‚ and to step back and look at it as a vital step in life – and not just human life‚ but all – and urge people to see death “neither as a friend nor as a stranger” (Gray‚ 119). What I believe is meant by this is not to look at death in a hopeful or despairing sense‚ but to just look at it neutrally and to just be aware of its existence as a way of life. Our death as a whole should not be seen as wasted‚ but
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characteristic work (Sockel‚ 1). In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka‚ the author‚ Kafka‚ elaborates on his philosophy of “Isolation + Despair = Possibility of existential understanding”. In order for the reader to fully understand what Kafka thinks of existentialism‚ the reader must read it multiple times and process everything down. Throughout the book‚ Kafka reveals his philosophy by isolating the main character‚ Gregor. He also reveals it by showing moments where he felt hopeless. To reveal this philosophy
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Existential Themes In Camus’s The Stranger‚ Kafka’s The Metamorphosis‚ and Soborio’s The Nihilists‚ we see a parallels of existential themes. These three sources fall into many different terms under the broader theme of existentialism‚ however the most apparent among them is nihilism. Through these three works of art‚ some aspect of them address the concept that life is meaningless and that nothing in the world has real existence. In the story of The Stranger‚ the main character‚ Meursault‚ is
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Jeremy Lahey Philosophy 120 Ethics Term Paper 11/27/12 Friedrich Nietzsche and Existentialism: Section I. Biography: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15‚ 1844 to Ludwig and Franziska Nietzsche in Röcken‚ in the Prussian Province of Saxony. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was named after King Wilhelm IV as the 15th of October was also his birthday‚ he turned 49. In the summer of 1849 Ludwig Nietzsche suffered nervous seizures which ended Ludwig’s life 10 months later on July 29th
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My purpose in this essay is to provide evidence that freedom and autonomy are linked‚ as well as subjectivity and morality. This essay will also show why existentialism is the only medium sufficient enough to obtain these ideals. This evidence will be provided through the works of Sartre and De Beauvoir‚ and will give us a basis to discuss why freedom cannot exist without an individual first being autonomous‚ as well as why subjectivity is necessary to form a correct moral code. Objections to this
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Dostoevsky could arguably be placed within the tradition of Christian existentialism. The roots of existentialism have been traced back as far as St Augustine.[9][10][11] Some of the most striking passages in Pascal’s Pensées‚ including the famous section on the Wager‚ deal with existentialist themes.[12][13][14][15] Jacques Maritain‚ in Existence and the Existent: An Essay on Christian Existentialism‚[16] finds the core of true existentialism in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Christian existentialists
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Existentialism response Existentialism is about finding your personal purpose of life and your meaning for existence. It is about making our own authentic choices for us to learn from to and increase our thinking and interpretation of life. An existentialist doesn’t let others tell him the meaning of life‚ but instead goes out and finds its meaning for himself. Existentialism is necessity to give true and authentic meaning to religion‚ life and the way we live our lives. Firstly‚ we see in “Did
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