“Kitchen” Notes Historical Context- Tokyo in the 1980’s: * Population: over 8 million people * One of the most expensive cities in the world to live * Crowded‚ with cramped living conditions * Industrial economy with reliance upon exportation of automobiles and electronics to the West Characters: * Mikage Sakurai- protagonist and narrator * Yuichi Tanabe- young man who befriends Mikage (love interest) * Sensei- cooking teacher * Sotaro- Mikage’s old boyfriend
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with Soren Kierkegaard‚ who is a Christian existentialist. For Kierkegaard‚ the human individual is outside of all systems‚ and is irreducibly singular. He is a Christian existentialist because he claims that a personal relationship with God is the highest accomplishment of human existence. As an existentialist‚ he opposes what he calls "Christiandom"‚ which is basically organized religion in which the individual loses itself in a group mentality. Religion is a personal event for Kierkegaard‚ not
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From the first few sentences of Albert Camus’ The Outsider‚ the protagonist‚ Meursault‚ is characterized as an amoral man. He is seemingly indifferent to the death of his own mother‚ despite the fact that societal principles would suggest he be deeply emotionally affected. His thoughts are instead centered upon the sun‚ which in return dictates his actions. In the novel‚ the sun is a representation of the societal weight which urges individuals to conform to norms. The presence of the sun indicates
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New criticism approaches - FOUZIA LAKHMOR - G3 - S4 - ON : 530 New Criticism A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text‚ e.g.‚
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Existentialism in Literature Existentialism in literature is a movement or tendency that emphasizes individual existence‚ freedom‚ and choice. While Existentialism was never an organized literary movement‚ the tenets of this philosophy have influenced many diverse writers around the world and readers can detect existential elements in their fiction. Americans writers like William Faulkner‚ Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck reveal existential elements in their writing. Perhaps the most prominent
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EXISTENTIALISM is a 20th century philosophy that is centered upon the analysis of existence and of the way humans find themselves existing in the world. The notion is that humans exist first and then each individual spends a lifetime changing their essence or nature. In simpler terms‚ existentialism is a philosophy concerned with finding self and the meaning of life through free will‚ choice‚ and personal responsibility. The belief is that people are searching to find out who and what they are
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Naugle begins by looking at the development of worldview throughout the history of protestant evangelicalism. He believes that Christians seem to have always had an understanding of how the world worked‚ but defining this in terms of a worldview has been a recent development in their history. Naugle looks at the writings of James Orr‚ who first arrived at the idea of viewing Christianity as a proper worldview. He believed that Christianity was not something to be sectioned‚ but taught and defended
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way to do so. This paper will deal with the claim that eternal happiness can be obtained by way of subjective reflection‚ rather than objective reflection‚ which is found in Soren Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript To Philosophical Fragments. Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes Climacus‚ Kierkegaard discusses how eternal happiness can be achieved. Climacus’ unique position and emphasis on the human being as an existing individual leads to his subjective basis for truth. I
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Tallahassee: Florida Street UP‚ 1986. Jefferson‚ Thomas. The Declaration of Independence. Essay on the Creation of Paudel 62 Knowledge. Eds. Shreedhar Pd. Lohani‚ Rameshor Pd. Adhikari and Abhi N. Subedi 2nd ed. Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar‚ 1996. Kierkegaard‚ Soren. ―Choice.‖ The Modern Tradition: Background of Modern Literature. Ed. Ellmann and Fiedelson. New York: Oxford UP‚ 1965. 828-834 ---. ―The Individual and the Crowd‖. The Modern Tradition: Background of Modern Literature. Ed. Ellmann and Fiedelson
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tuberculosis‚ and had to spend three years in a sanatorium. This was probably the turning point of his life. While he faced the possibility of death‚ he also filled his empty hours with reading. Among the literature he read were the writings of Soren Kierkegaard‚ the Danish religious writer who inspired much of the existential movement‚ and provided the inspiration for May’s theory. He went on to study psychoanalysis at White Institute‚ where he met people such as Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich Fromm
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