consequently‚ feel alienated. Both Keating and Meursault are strangers in a society that wants to dictate their expected behaviour and actions. Society seeks to imprison their individual freedom. Meursault is indifferent and passive to this conventional life that is not worth living. He refuses to be anything but himself‚ regardless of the price he must pay. In contrast‚ Keating responds to such a society by actively and passionately trying to make a difference by nurturing each person to be free to
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Picture: This view holds that man is a divine creature with a purpose assigned to him by his Maker. There is nothing and no one in the world in which we can have faith or trust‚ or look to for guidance‚ etc. -- except for other humans. This means that life cannot lie in submission to God’s will. Christians cannot justify the enormous amounts of undeserved suffering in the world. Modern Scientific Picture: Scientists and educated men feel the Christian attitude towards the world and human existence
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Howard Wakefield’s life is seemingly perfect in all regards. A stable job at a respected law firm‚ a lovely home‚ and a beautiful family. Yet‚ he is clearly unhappy with the monotonous routine that plagues his daily life. In Doctorow’s version of the short story‚ the narrator is Mr. Wakefield and as a result‚ the reader understands his reasoning in deciding to leave his wife and children. The reader is given insight about Wakefield’s unsatisfying marriage and the irritation he expresses due to
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Existentialism is the theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free responsible agent determining their own development through acts of will. Some people find their own purpose in their life such as family‚ job and religion. However‚ as soon as people get old‚ they realize that their purpose is not what they thought it was. For instance‚ in the story‚ “A Clean‚ Well- Lighted Place” an old man had his purpose‚ which was his wife‚ and lost it. He had to find a
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birth and throughout his life he is no more than the sum of his past commitments. To believe in anything outside his own will is to be guilty of ’bad Faith.’ Existentialist despair and anguish is the acknowledgement that man is condemned to freedom. There is no God‚ so man must rely upon his own fallible will and moral insight. He cannot escape choosing." Sartre’s Theory of the Universe is "There is no ultimate meaning or purpose inherent in human life; in this sense life is ’absurd’. We are ’forlorn’
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SIMPLE LIVING AND HIGH THINKING Simple living and high thinking is a way of life. It indicates that one should devote one’s life to the pursuit of knowledge and culture instead of bothering about high standard of living. Simple living signifies that one should acquire or possess resources or products or assets to the minimum. One should not worry about acquiring material things as these are transitory in nature. Much of our time is wasted in planning and strategising about how to attain high standard
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everyone in the human life has more than one choice to make in their lives which the author is referring as a ‘road’. The author refers to the path as any important decision in human being’s life that cannot be reversed for a long time. It could be a career decision or a decision like wedding that encourages us to follow a path for a long time till we fulfil the destination and the author doubted that if he could ever reverse the path and come to the same point again. Our everyday life is based on many
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thinks back to how he lives his life. He contemplates how “He was outside his family now‚ over and beyond them; they were incapable of even thinking that he had done such a deed”(Wright 167). Wright utilizes the words “beyond” and “incapable” to place emphasis on a “ceiling” of expectations on Bigger. Bigger describes his feat with “done such a deed” to connote how he has done the impossible in his society. People in Despair each obtain a goal or destination in life and strive for it‚ setting that
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the world and shares the same human values. Nam Le’s fictional short stories‚ in The Boat and Forrest Gump and a film directed by Robert Zemeckis illustrates that change often involves struggle and hardship but can prepare us for the challenges that life may bring and the new opportunities offered for personal growth and overcoming obstacles. Change is a complex process that involves strength and hardship to overcome the initial struggle and may depend on us making our own decisions that can lead
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has a sudden realization or epiphany that life has no inherent meaning or purpose. Feelings of depression‚ anxiety‚ and nausea follow the sudden realization. The only way to move past an existential crisis is to act and create meaning and purpose in life. The old waiter experiences this when he realizes he has no wife or family and that he is living without meaning. As an effect‚ he loses faith in his religion and refuses to change his perspective on life in order to ultimately find purpose. The juxtaposition
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