Summary Of Crosby's Existential Nihilism
Referring to Crosby and his classification of nihilism, he would be categorized as an existential nihilist. His existential nihilistic viewpoint has represented in his writings. For him, death is beginning. He defines life in the shadow of death. In his opinion, there is just one significant problem in the life of human beings that is the problem of death. Likewise, for him, life is meaningless, trivia and purposeless which results to the nothingness and emptiness of existence by itself together with all actions, sufferings and feelings where death can show itself as an antidote for this long-lasting pain. In the following, some of his ideas about life are mentioned:
“Life is inseparable from death. Without life, there wouldn’t be any death …show more content…
We are the offspring of death and death delivers us from the tantalizing, fraudulent attractions of life; it is death that beckons us from the depths of life. During the ages that we still do not understand the language, when, at times, in the middle of playing we come to a halt, we do so to hear the call of death… throughout our lives, it is the finger of death that points at us. Has it not happened for someone to suddenly, without reason, experience a moment of deep thought, so deep that he loses his bearing in time and space and does not know what he is thinking about? And after he is jolted back into reality, does he not need to become reacquainted with the real world? That is the call of death.” ( بوف کور The Blind Owl …show more content…
“My life, on the other hand, my entire life, has had one season and one state. Even though a constant flame burns in the center of my body and, like a candle, melts me away, my life is in a cold zone, in eternal darkness.” (34)
Even in some parts of his short stories, he implies his own sexual despair:
“I thought in this base world, full of poverty and misery, for the first time in my life, a ray of sunshine shone on my life … it was a transient beam, a shooting star that appeared to me in the likeness of a woman or an angel …Then that beam of light disappeared into the dark abyss for which it was destined. No. I could not keep that transient beam for myself.” (26)
The light appears to him in the form of a woman or an angel who is normally considered a female whose place is empty in his life. When this light disappears, his life turns into darkness signifying his hopelessness in finding a wife in his
“Life is inseparable from death. Without life, there wouldn’t be any death …show more content…
We are the offspring of death and death delivers us from the tantalizing, fraudulent attractions of life; it is death that beckons us from the depths of life. During the ages that we still do not understand the language, when, at times, in the middle of playing we come to a halt, we do so to hear the call of death… throughout our lives, it is the finger of death that points at us. Has it not happened for someone to suddenly, without reason, experience a moment of deep thought, so deep that he loses his bearing in time and space and does not know what he is thinking about? And after he is jolted back into reality, does he not need to become reacquainted with the real world? That is the call of death.” ( بوف کور The Blind Owl …show more content…
“My life, on the other hand, my entire life, has had one season and one state. Even though a constant flame burns in the center of my body and, like a candle, melts me away, my life is in a cold zone, in eternal darkness.” (34)
Even in some parts of his short stories, he implies his own sexual despair:
“I thought in this base world, full of poverty and misery, for the first time in my life, a ray of sunshine shone on my life … it was a transient beam, a shooting star that appeared to me in the likeness of a woman or an angel …Then that beam of light disappeared into the dark abyss for which it was destined. No. I could not keep that transient beam for myself.” (26)
The light appears to him in the form of a woman or an angel who is normally considered a female whose place is empty in his life. When this light disappears, his life turns into darkness signifying his hopelessness in finding a wife in his