Literary Journal (LLILJ) ISSN 2249-4529‚ Vol.3/ NO.2/Autumn 2013 URL of the Issue: http://pintersociety.com/vol-3-no-2autumn-2013/ © www.pintersociety.com 28 Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ) Key words: Absurd‚ Existentialism‚ Surrealism‚ and Post modernism. The term Absurd is essentially impregnated with various human conditions and situations arousing absurdity and is necessarily present in the post world war generation. Life has become bitter sweet or „life
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Existentialism: American Beauty American Beauty is a movie that sets in suburban America. The story is about Lester‚ whom is a middle-aged writer working in a magazine company. He was having a midlife crisis where he felt lonely and numbed by continuous unchanging routine of his everyday life. In the movie‚ his wife portrayed as a successful real estate agent‚ but she was also going through her own midlife crisis in both her career and personal life. Lester’s daughter‚ Jane Bumham had alienated
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lawyer in “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener” Through the struggle to come to terms with the unusual situation with his uncooperative employee Bartleby‚ the lawyer protagonist in Melville’s “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener” realizes compassion for the human condition and is better off for the journey. The lawyer is a prime example of a story’s protagonist not knowing that he is on an interior journey. In the beginning of the story the lawyer is shown to be self absorbed in his work‚ but after Bartleby enters his
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Acumen Publishing Limited‚ 2006‚ pp.28-29. Diane Collinson‚ Fifty Major Philosophers a Referential Gudie‚ Routledge‚ 1995‚ p www.standfordencylopedia/moral responsibility/=feminism.[on line:web] Accessed on 26th April‚ 2009. Jean Paul Sartre‚ Existentialism and Humanism‚ trans. Philip Mairet‚ Butler and Tanner Ltd.‚ 1946‚ p. 124. Gisela Bock and Susan James‚ Beyond Equality and Differences‚ Citizenship‚ Feminist Politics and Female Subjectivity‚ Routledge‚ 1992‚ pp. 184-7. Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Herman Melville‚ in 1853‚ published Bartleby‚ the Scrivener; a short story told through the perspective of an unnamed Manhattan Lawyer‚ who employs an apathetic scrivener who is characterized by his “[looniness]” (9). Albeit initially it seems as though Bartleby will be conducive to success‚ with his “pallidly neat” outfit and his appeared propensity to complete “lengthy documents” (7)‚ it is quick to conclude that from his first day at work‚ the eponymous Bartleby has been “dead” long before his arrival
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Analysis of Bartleby‚ the scrivener The narrator’s initial self-characterization is important to the story. He is a "safe" man‚ one who takes few risks and tries above all to conform. The most pragmatic concerns of financial security and ease of life are his priorities. He has made himself perfectly at home in the modern economy: he works as a lawyer dealing with rich men’s legal documents. He is therefore an opposite or complement to Bartleby in many ways. He is also ill suited to be entrusted
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Metamorphosis is an illustrious short story‚ which manifests Kafka’s complex character‚ his beliefs‚ and real-life dilemmas. It highlights the existentialist credo by elucidating the quandaries faced by an individual in the face of absurdity. Kafka critiques the impersonal and materialistic society around us‚ which mitigates individualism‚ restricts freedom‚ and engenders alienation. A whirlwind of redundancy and absurdity pose Gregor with an identity crisis. Initially‚ his individuality is tethered
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There is certainly no shortage of conversation between the characters‚ however the dialogue between them is little more than a means to pass time‚ rather than to communicate with one another. It is for this reason and for the reason that I believe existentialism is at the core of this play‚ that I am unsure if Waiting for Godot offers a commentary on the difficulty in communication. I am more inclined to think that it is this breakdown of communication in the play that is instead offering a commentary
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Camus’ Attitude to the Absurd in his The Stranger Mahbuba Sultana1 Abstract: Albert Camus (1913-1960) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957 for his important literary production‚ which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times. He was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. The Stranger is indeed
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ABSURDISM IN MODERN LITERATURE[pic] Absurdism is often linked to Existentialism‚ the philosophical movement associated with Jean Pual Satre and Albert Camus‚ among others. Although both existentialists and absurdists are concerned with the senselessness of the human condition‚ the way this concern is expressed differs. The philosophers explored the irrational nature of human existence within the rational and logical framework of conventional philosophical thought. The Absurdists‚ however‚ abondoned
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