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 lifeless man who finds no meaning
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GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE by Flannery O ’Connor The short story Good Country People was written by O’Connor. The story introduces us to well-educated a woman who was thirty-two years old. This woman has an artificial leg which was shot off in a hunting accident when she was ten. She went to college and earned a doctorate in philosophy. She has a heart condition; so she cannot work and has to live at home with her mother. The name given to her is Joy but she changed her name to Hulga. She mocks her mother
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guess how to adapt that new phenomenon in the Russian society‚ but because he founded out that there was the only one law‚ which even theoretically the nihilist did not presume to deny it. Also‚ Turgenev did not found constructive‚ creative force in nihilism. He forced the character to die‚ as he did not see continuation of his (Bazarov) activity. Bazarov’s death was justified in an own way‚ as in love it was impossible to lead up Bazarov to " silence of pleasure"‚ as in his business should have stayed
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Cartesian Skepticism to Existentialism The nature of our reality and existence has been a topic of debate since at least the ancient Greeks. Do we exist? Why do we exist? Does it even matter? These are questions I will attempt to address thoroughly. Answers may not be comfortable or satisfactory‚ but it’s better to rip that band-aid off now than continue blindly in the dark. Rationalism and Empiricism have both attempted to prove existence‚ but at their most extremes they fall apart. Using
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[Russell and Russell: New York‚1964]); Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche ‚ Friedrich Nietzsche‚ ed. and tr. Christopher Middleton (U. of Chicago: Chicago‚ 1969); Nietzsche: A Critical Life‚ Ronald Hayman (Oxford U.: New York‚ 1980); Beyond Nihilism‚ Ofelia Schutte (U. of Chicago: Chicago‚ 1984); Nietzsche ’s Zarathustra Kathleen Marie Higgins (Temple: Philadelphia‚ 1987); Zarathustra ’s Dionysian Modernism‚ Robert Gooding-Williams (Stanford U.: California‚ 2001); Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
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In China‚ much research word on Hemingway has been focusing on his anti-war attitude which is shown through his works and the manhood. However‚ not much attention has been paid to the tragic vision that Hemingway tries to show in A Farewell to Arms. In this thesis‚ I’m going to explore the tragic vision from the aspects of its contents and the techniques that Hemingway employs in A Farewell to Arms. Through careful investigation and sufficient illustration and analysis‚ I will conclude that Hemingway’s
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Anton Chekov “One must never lie. Art has this speculation.” Chekov is seen as absurd dramatist Absurd Theatre Theatre of the Absurd is a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction in the late 1950s. Their work expressed the belief that human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all \communication breaks down. Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion‚ silence. Explores the absurdity of attempting to
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Reality in the Absurdity Harold Pinter is one of the most prominent living dramatists of the age. The seventy-three year old playwright has written twenty-nine plays and twenty-one screen plays and directed twenty-seven theater productions. He is one of the early practitioners of the Theater of the Absurd started in the fifties. In “The Black and White”‚ absurd‚ one of the many different aspects of his works‚ functions as a method of getting into the reality that Pinter has been concerned.
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Finally‚ the united lovers who regard themselves as a married couple (although they have not been married in a civil ceremony) find their resort when they flee to Switzerland. It is in an environment far away from the war where Henry can dedicate to a relationship and forget about the war: “The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college. But I knew from the papers that they were still fighting in the mountains because the snow would not come”. (291). However‚ after a
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Existentialism and Film Noir Existentialism and its worldview are believed to have derived from Nietzsche’s provocative and controversial statement “God is dead”. The underlying meaning to Nietzsche’s controversial statement is that empirical natural science has replaced metaphysical explanations of the world. As a result of this‚ according to Nietzsche we no longer have any sense of who and what we are as human beings. He concludes that no foundation exists anymore for the meaning and value of
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