Essays on Absurd

“A Serious Talk” by R. Carver covers the themes of separation, jealousy and identity crisis through the conflict development between protagonist Burt and his antagonist Vera with the help of limited narration, extensive symbolism, dramatic irony and absurd actions. The third-person point of view seems objective at first, but later clearly hints that the narration is limited to protagonist perspective, which shows how the main character is unable to let go of his wife. Moreover, it is seen in Burt’s attitude to Vera’s house, as if it is his own, and in his mention of multiple Vera’ ...

Waiting for Godot was written precisely after the World War II, and it is a commonplace to link the Theatre of the Absurd with the postwar trauma and disgust, a somewhat attempt to get rid of an acute sense of shame. However, the main themes of the play are rather controversial and questionable. We may admit that, among other things, Beckett thoroughly focuses on the subject of power. More precisely, it is about power and interdependence -- the complex relation between master and slave (it is clearly evident on relations between Pozzo and Lucky). Who suffers more master or ...

Waiting for Godot

The years after the Second World War are considered to be ill-fated for the theatre arts. However, over the course of time, interests as well as endeavors were carried towards undiscovered subjects and to those which are not openly acknowledged or displayed in the traditionally established forms and uses as well. Therefore, in gradual mode, without any ostentatious manifestation, another type of theatre appeared. In the 50s it was obtruded upon large audiences, which consisted of students and academics searching for something neoteric. Absurdism is regarded as philosophical standpoint which asserts that the aspirations of humanity to detect meaning ...

The genre of dark comedy is a fascinating subset of the standard comedy film, combining elements of drama and dark subject matter with comedic elements of the absurd and ironic to create unique works that poke fun not only at the foibles of mankind, but the inherent silliness of extremely serious things. Dark comedy can take many forms, and both American and English sensibilities in particular have their own attitudes and characteristics in their own examples. Two of the most well-regarded dark comedy films of recent years are 1996’s Fargo (directed by the Brothers Coen) and 2008’s ...

In Bebe Moore Campbell’s, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, there are fictional stories about several people. The stories are set in rural Mississippi where there are clear forms of racial segregation. A good example is the killing of a poor fifteen year old black boy, Armstrong, on racial grounds because he spoke French to a white woman, Lily. Perhaps the most pitiful person in the text is Lily because of how she is treated by her husband. First of all, she is a school dropout. She then goes on to get married to Floyd, a young man who owns a pool hall ...

Many an argument has been proposed on the topic of divine omniscience, determinism and free will. It has been said that God has foreknowledge of all future events, and nothing he knows can be false, it is then difficult to conceive that something that has been previously known by a higher being, could be changed by an arbitrary decision of an individual in the present or future. This argument has been exposed by Pike in a very logical and clear way.

Supposing that God, say 80 years ago, knew that a person would watch a movie on Friday; and if God is omniscient ...

Analysis of an American Trial: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692

Today, the Salem village located in Massachusetts in the United States of America is notorious to the world for being the village, where unjustified witch prosecutions and trials took place. The Salem has fallen into such disrepute because of the sad historical events occurred there in 1692. Many women, including little girls aged 4 and 11, were accused of witchcraft without any valid evidentiary material. All of them were considered to be the Devil’s servants, who possessed supernatural powers for the purposes of harming people and pleasing the Devil by doing so. Such women were imprisoned, hanged on ...

1) A. A lot of Thomas Aquinas’s “genius” did not rest in his own thoughts, but in his ability to Christianize the ideas of the ancient Greeks such as Aristotle and Plato’s school of thoughts. In his Summa Theologiae, he presents five arguments that he believes demonstrates logically the need for the existence of God. 1. Aquinas’s first proof for the existence of God was centered on motion. The parallel to the Aristotelian physics is apparent. Under that system, an arrow moved because wind behind it pushed it. Anything moving needed a driving force behind ...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a disease characterized by compulsive obsessions and compulsions interfering normal life. Obsessions are constantly arising unwanted views, concerns, thoughts, images or impulses that the patient cannot confront (Markarian et al., 2010). Compulsions are repetitive actions aiming at getting rid thereof (Markarian et al., 2010). Obsessions often cause anxiety and compulsive behavior or rituals serve to reduce this anxiety. As a result a person's life may be significantly impaired due to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Obsessive thoughts or actions can take much time and be so painful that the person is usually failing to have normal life. However, obsessional thoughts differ ...

Question 1

Religion is an overarching theme in the Stranger. The antagonist, Meursault, in this novel is an atheist. He does not believe in the existence of God. He believes that the world is shaped and is as a result of fate. Meursault finds it difficult that there is the existence of a supernatural being that controls the world. The theme of religion is brought about in various sections of the plot in this novel. One of the main sections of the plot where the theme of religion is brought is during the funeral of Meursault mother. Meursault does not show any remorse ...

Existence of God

In the general sphere of religion, there are many conflicting issues pertaining to existence of God. This is mainly caused by the different ways in which religious faiths interpret the existence of God. However some other aspects of the existence of God are universally accepted across the different religious faiths. Some of these aspects are: omnipresence, all powerful, the creator and the Supreme Being (www.existence-of-god.com, paragraph 3).

Looking at some basic facts that are evident across all these arguments, there is a universal acceptance that God has unknown origin to human knowledge. This fact is supported by the fact that ...

Clarissa's relationship with Sally Seton is one of the most interesting and controversial aspects of the novel, as it depicts a latent homosexual desire for Sally on the part of Clarissa. Clarissa and Sally had kissed at Bourton 34 years previous to that, and still remembers that as the happiest she has ever been - it was the "most exquisite moment of her whole life...Sally stopped; picked a flower, kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down! The other's disappeared; there she was alone with Sally" (Wolff, 1925).

Clarissa's love for Sally ...

Shot in 2008, “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is a historical drama film by the British director Mark Herman on the Holocaust during the World War II. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by John Boyne. The theme of a fine line between those who happened to be on the aggressor’s side and those on the victim’s side won the audience’s hearts and made the film noticeable among others dedicated to the World War II. The movie stars David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga and Rupert Friend. “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is ...

The meaning of life has been one of the most significant questions that humankind has asked itself. Throughout history, different cultures have given various answers, from myths, to religion and science. After Nietzsche’s proclamation of the death of God, philosophers started asking themselves what they were on this planet for, giving rise to the Existentialist movement. Attempting to answer this question some saw that it did not have a verifiable response, concluding that human life was actually absurd. However, not everyone interpreted this word in the same way. Albert Camus was one of its most famous proponents, believing that ...

In reference to how David has been acting, it is clear that he has continuously neglected his role at home and as husband over the many years that he has been married. Based on his previous behavior, it would be absurd to think that he has suddenly has a change in heart just when he realizes that his marriage is falling apart. This is because his speech regarding his change in nature comes just after his wife requested for a divorce over the phone. It is clearly put that he has been selfish and unsuccessful in his career, which he has ...

According to Albert Camus in his work The Myth of Sisyphus, man is engaged in a futile search for meaning, as the world itself is completely devoid of significant and universal truths. He compares life to the myth of Sisyphus, the Greek figure who was doomed to roll a boulder up a mountain, only to never reach the top. Instead of giving up and embracing oblivion, however, Camus believes that "The struggle itselfis enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy" (Camus 1955, PAGE). Sisyphus becomes the embodiment of Camus’ absurd hero – a man who attempts to persevere in a world that ...

The philosophy of the Medieval ages was closely interfaced to theology, and the perspective was based on the relation God - person. However, thus the philosophy had, unlike religions, the functions related to its main property - doubt (in the validity of religious doctrines). In medieval philosophy, it is possible to allocate two stages of its formation – patristic views (2-8 centuries) and scholasticism (11-14 centuries), so to draw a clear line between them is quite difficult. Patristic views are a set of theology-philosophical views of the "fathers of the church" who undertook Christianity justification, relying on the ancient philosophy ...

Zeno Paradoxes

Zeno of Elea is a mathematician and a Greek philosopher who is famous for his paradoxes that deals with or explains the continuity of motion. He was born during 490 BCE and was a strong devotee of Parmenides who also introduced the Eleactic school of thought in the current southern Italy. He survives in Parmenides, Plato's dialog and from it the origin of paradoxes becomes clear. One of the most familiar paradoxes put across by Zeno states that I cannot walk over you as I need to get there halfway, and in the event that I succeed I must still cover the remaining ...

Moral luck emerges when one is treated well or praised regardless of the fact that the outcome of what has led him or her to be praised is dependent on other factors that are beyond his or her control. (Thomas, N. 1979) & (Williams B. 1993) Thomas Nagel in his article of “Moral Luck” (1979) noted that in our day to day activities, moral blame and moral praise are influenced to a greater extent intuitively. He gave an example of two reckless drivers where one causes an accident and the other does not. The fact the driver who has caused ...

The historical, cultural and scientific events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped human thoughts and philosophy. The purpose of science and philosophy is to explain the universe, meaning of life and where man fits in. Man has made progress based on the growth and development of science and philosophy. The conventional opinions that were barriers to a richer human experience were attacked by Nietzsche, who disliked liberalism, communism, and socialism. He disagreed to the two-hundred-year-old western intellectual tradition of progress and condemned the morality of Christians. He advocated that the man was living alone in an ...

Donald Barthelme was born in the year1931. So the Barthelme was born nearly a little less than a century later than the time the term feminism was coined. But he died in 1989, a time when the concept Feminism had taken root and was an established movement which has thousands of supporters from both genders.

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On the surface his writings were filled with bizarre incidents but there was always an underlying theme or idea that would try to explore the boundaries of the world as people knew it, in that time and age. Barthelme's world has a framework that revolves around a disturbing level ...

“WOMEN ARE PEOPLE TOO”

We all live in 21st century, where almost everyone is talking about democracy and human rights however, those are not followed in each country. Therefore, the question about human rights is to be discussed. There are still some countries, which do not take into consideration the rights of women, who suffer from the patriarchy. In this paper I am going to discuss this issue on the example of Egypt. Egypt has been trying to change their perception in the world in last three years. This country did not want to be “the third world” anymore, so people started ...

Existentialism is a movement in both philosophy and literature that highlights the importance of individual freedom and choices. According to the philosophy of existentialism, some events or occurrences that happen with a person are irrational or absurd having no explanation for that. They believe that there are no universal guidelines to follow as well as there is no objective form of truth. Therefore, existentialism is based on one’s choices, decisions that are unique and unchangeable. The philosophers of existentialism argue that human choice is a subjective matter, because individuals are supposed to make choices without external influence of societal standards (ethical ...

1. I think experimental fiction is very interesting. I find absurdist fiction most compelling because I think it, in a way reflects real life. Life in a sense is absurd. There are things in the world that cannot be explained. There are many religions of people saying this, or saying that. It is hard to know what to believe, whom to believe and what is real. So absurdist fiction, while it reflects reality in absurd ways, in a way is perhaps an accurate way to represent reality—which is often absurd. 2. I also find metafiction quite compelling, since it is ...

Same sex marriages, which are also referred to as gay marriages, have been among the most significant subjects, heavily debated by the communities all over the world. It is now a fashion to believe gay marriages to be a norm of life. Some people also believe, that gay marriages and their legalization is a step towards mariage equality, as this new aspect of human rights is currently referred to (Merevick, ND). But does it really have to do with human rights? This issue is being discussed by experts on human rights, such as Human Rights Commission in New Zealand (HRC, ND). And ...

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1. What lessons does the reader learn as he travels with Marlow down the Congo River? In Joseph Conrad’s he reader learns the lessons that the line separating “civilization” from “savagery” is much thinner than Marlow suspects in the beginning. The further he goes down the river, the further he moves away from civilization. But while the physical moving away form civilization is obvious, it is the mental, internal moving away which is most interesting to the theme of the novel. Marlow learns that it takes little for a person to lose touch with the civilization that they ...

Abstract

Modernity and Post modernity are the two social, political, economic and cultural phases in respectively 20th and 21st centuries. The initial phase of cinema was much influenced by phase of modernity and the later was influenced by the aspects of post modernity. The paper tries to analyse these modernity and post-modernity in cinematic context. For this comparative analysis the researcher has taken two cinematic works. The initial focus of the paper is the study of the term modernity with its elements. These elements have been analyzed in the context of Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic work. The paper then discusses ...

Postmodernism is a movement of art that emerged in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Among all art movements, this one is considered to be the most controversial (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014). This movement defies definition and is said to have fundamentally introduced an unstable mix of theoretical and theatrical. It was majorly multifaceted and was characterized by elements ranging from the luxurious to the completely ridiculous (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014). This new brand of art is considered to have shattered some of the previously established ideas and styles as well as generally introducing radical freedom to ...

Research Essay on the story "Behind the Law"

According to Jean-Paul Sartre, no God is responsible for creating human beings in tune with a conceptual divination. In his work on existentialism, Sartre wrote, “Existence precedes essence” (Jill, p.6). This basically means that each of us human beings has their philosophy about life. That what we are or become in life is due to the personal choices we make in our lives. We are wholly in charge of our lives, and we cannot just follow the choices and thoughts of others blindly and let them define our lives. Essentially, we define ourselves through our attitudes and perceptions we have ...

Absurdism as a worldview theory is a part of the philosophy of existentialism; and as the fundamental philosophical concept it was firstly developed in the work of Albert Camus “The Myth of Sisyphus”. As a system of philosophical views, it claims the lack of meaning of human life (the absurdity of life existence). According to the absurdism, people have been trying to find the meaning of existence throughout their history. Traditionally, these attempts have ended in one of two ways: man has come to the conclusion that all life is senseless or he has started to understand that everything is predetermined by ...

Absurdity of human existence is a hard philosophical question. The problem of absurdity of human existence arises from the point of view that the universe is meaningless and there is nothing in the world worth living. According to existentialism the tragedy of human existence is that people are like abandoned in the world of physical pleasures. They don't know how to live in the world, aware of the impermanence of existence. In this essay I would like to highlight Albert Camus’, Richard Taylor’s and Thomas Nagel’s points of view on absurdity of human existence. Even though ...

Camus’ “The Stranger” is brilliantly as it crafts Camus’s absurdist view of the world. The novel came out in 1942, and tells the story of Meursault’s , an emotionally detached, but amoral young man. Meursault does not believe in God. Camus shows the main character’s callous nature as he does not cry at his mother’s funeral and he kills a man he hardly knows. Due to his crime, the society sees Meursault as a threat to the society, and as such, he faced death. Nevertheless, he comes to understand the simple coldness of the world. He eventually finds ...

The critical lens aspect in the most basic sense gives the human beings and society an avenue to view and gauge the behavior of others using the set philosophical aspects. It categorizes another human being using already established rules, spheres and fronts. It is to say and imply that the human beings have the impetus and insight to gauge human character and behavior on one of the most common principles of human existence. For the purpose of this essay, I will use the existential philosophy and critique to give insights on the subject. Given the existential aspects and philosophical ...

Barbara Ehrenreich’s presents a clear and concise account of the methods that millions of American uses to survive the economic struggles in American. In addition, the 2001 book, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America” analyzes how individuals survive on minimum paying jobs. Ehrenreich postulates that even though these individuals work under poor economic conditions, there is a strong “work ethic” present. But, this work ethic does not help to provide the basic necessities of transportation, food, and shelter. For those individuals who work in hotels, restaurants, retail stores, and a number of other service jobs the wages are not ...

Democracy is, indeed, killing America as a democracy does not necessarily provide liberty or any other sort of freedom. It only provides control for a group of people that are elite in contrast to the general population and rather than elections or other electoral platforms are held to fulfil government selections for the people, my opinion is that such platforms are held to select government goals instead and these goals, like any other, hold interests of the elite, not the general public. My opinion is that the liberty is needed for democracy, but democracy is never needed for liberty. Democracy ...

Descartes Skepticism

The philosophy of Descartes, usually called Cartesianism, is summarized in Discourse, in a more complete form - in the "Reflections" on First Philosophy (Meditationes de prima philosophia in qua Dei existentia et Animae immortalitas demonstratur, 1641, second edition with Objectiones Septimae, 1642, the Paris edition in French, with corrections Descartes in 1647) and from a different point of view in the "first principles of philosophy" (Principia philosophiae, 1644, a French translation in 1647). Sensory experience is not able to give reliable knowledge, because we are often faced with the illusions and hallucinations. In addition, the reasoning is deducing conclusions from the ...

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One underlying goal of Professor Francis J. Ambrosio’s Lesson 1 (Meaning – A Question and a Commitment) is the taking of responsibility for our search for meaning by experiencing the full power of such meaning in our individual lives. He proposed not a mere intellectual recitation of a theoretical answer to an existential question; but a passionate living of such meaning through the power of commitment. Both the lives of Socrates (Marvin, n.pg.) and Abraham (Jones 28-42) reflected such basic passion for meaning. The ultimate meaning of Socrates’ life centered upon his quest for the truth ...

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The playwright that I support is Art by Yasmina Reza. In this play, Art regards the catastrophic outcome on three friends, and when one of the buys a work that is expensive —a huge painting containing white lines on a canvas that was white. This play relates more to our play because everyone in Art is selfish and self- centered. In our play, instead of recognizing the elephant in the room, which is the suicide, everyone’s focus is on their own issues just like in the Art where three men engage in an continuing debate over the worth of the painting, ...

English: Critical Thinking

The first reproach is an invitation to the people to dwell in quietism of despair as if all solutions to a problems are barred, all actions in this world would be declared ineffective. This is a lead to the contemplative philosophy and as the contemplative philosophy is a luxury, this is another bourgeois philosophy and the reproach made by the communist. Another reproach that is ignominious in the human situation for neglecting things that possess charm and beauty and belongs to the brighter side of human nature. A man is considered in isolation in both the reproaches and the reason as per ...

‘The myth of Sisyphus,’ authored by Albert Camus, is a philosophical essay. This essay originally published in the year 1942 but became famous only after its translation into English from the French language. Camus, in this essay, presents an absurd man’s unsuccessful search of the god, truth as well as eternality. The author presents a thorough analysis of the absurd man’s struggle in a realistic manner. This paper intends to discuss the ideas that Camus mentions in his essays and further analyses other related aspects of the area under discussion. Camus explores several artistic creations and fictional writings as ...

The art project I have chosen for my image is ‘the absurd’. This choice arises from the ability of drawings to communicate, or present hidden messages. Absurd images are hard to understand and find use where the artist intends to communicate to a limited group of people with sufficient background to certain information. The image I have chosen for this project falls under the category of absurd. The image employs a good use of colors, depth and shapes, without achieving a straightforward interpretation by a lay observer. I utilized various drawing skills to create the ambiguous image. The use of lines draws ...

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DEFINING GEORGE W. BUSH’S PORTRAYAL AS PRESIDENT 2 ABSTRACT George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States and 46th Governor of Texas, served as the head of the executive branch from 2001 until 2009. The eldest son of President, George H.W. Bush, has been maligned and vilified rather than lauded for his two consecutive terms, which were fraught with strife. His presidency endured the rise of the Internet, the 9/11 attack, the wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, the art of electronic surveillance, immigration law and international relations, specifically the Geneva Convention’s regulations for ...

Oscar Wilde is a unique representative of the Victorian era in the English literature. The most valuable ideas of his works are rejection of egoism, permissiveness of personality, ethics and moral principles. All of these them Wilde illustrates in his play “The Importance of Being Earnest”. There is something exceptionally ironical in the title of the play itself. It may be interpreted for the both meanings of the word – as a treat of character that lacks practically every person in the play, and as a name of the fictional and at the same time real character of it. The point is ...

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Aimee Bender’s fictions are symbolic of human emotions and struggles largely analogized and formed through fairy-tale representations. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt is by and large in the same vein and is a collection of short stories that seems to suggest a narration by a teenage girl. On reading The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, in each of the short stories, the one common moral and that is one of trauma interlocked with pittance. The story about a young girl who comes home to find her dad carrying a backpack which seems to resemble a bag made of stones is intriguing. In the ...

Macintyre’s after good life philosophy exposed the state of modern moral opinions and discourse that has failed to be rational and the failure to admit the irrational nature. His view was that the enlightenment was detrimental to the morals as enshrined in the prehistoric times and that morals are not supposed to be exclusively subjective or tied to and individuals opinions. He held the basic Aristotle’s assumptions on man’s nature that he is the way he is and this is distinctly different from how man should be. Enlightenment does not offer any alternative that can replace ...

The judges mainly rely on a various principles when interpreting the acts of parliament. These rules include:

- The literal rule. - The golden rule. - The mischief rule.

The literal rule

It is the cardinal rule of construction (interpretation) of statutes. In this rule, words must be given their ordinary, literal, grammatical meaning. The literal rule is the first rule to be used in establishing the intention of the legislature. In many cases, the courts are normally required to interpret the meaning of a given piece of legislation to enable them apply facts to the cases that come before the judges. As such, the courts have continually developed a wide range of rules of interpretation to assist ...

Persuasion is an important goal of public discourse and it can be achieved in many ways. However, since ancient times, politicians, salesmen, and public figures, often resort to invalid argument or fallacies to persuade people to accept that what they express is true. This can be made intentionally or not, but the arguments made this way are wrong nonetheless. This work analyzes three arguments taken from different internet sources, to spot fallacies committed identifying the premises used and the conclusions they arrive to. This way, one can find out what the argument is trying to prove and why its ...

The government of the United Kingdom is composed of three branches. The three branches are the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. The nexus of these three branches of government lies in their positions vis a vis the law. The legislature is tasked with formulating the laws, the executive with executing the law and the judiciary with the task of interpreting the law. This submission will be seeking to dwell on the Judiciary’s function of interpreting the law. The submission will be specifically focusing on the various approaches, rules and other assistance which members of the judiciary use when ...

Book VII - On Shadows and Realities in Education

SOCRATES - GLAUCON AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will ...

Suffering is among the acute most as well as hard human problems. All people at a particular point will face as well as the struggle with suffering. This is a problem not meant for just believers in God but also for non believers. Suffering may be regarded to be among the most widespread human problems. For a few of believers, suffering turns to be the obstacle in their religious journey. Some refuse God due to spiritual or physical pain, which they go through. Others, nevertheless, utilize it as a way of purification and sanctification. The suffering problem has never been effectively and successfully ...

The desire for a heavenly after life or immortality leads to boredom since in essence there is no real end to life. Life runs on an infinite timeline no matter our interests, habits or values. There is no climax to life no ‘grand exit’ or so to speak. Human beings are naturally inclined towards expectation and accomplishment which in essence bring about a sense of finality. Immortality or a heavenly life after death contradicts this finality concept which can be a strong motivator for greatness. Since life has no real end it loses its ‘kick’ and excitement fades away hence boredom. Their argument ...

In philosophy, the absurd describes the inability to find a meaning in life, and all people who try to find purpose in their lives will eventually fail. Life itself is not absurd, but when people are faced with existential questions, they inevitably face absurdity. In response, they can commit suicide, turn to religion for answers, or accept life and its absurdity as it is. Albert Camus claims suicide and recovery are the methods of dealing with the absurd once existential questions cause people to encounter it (“The myth of Sisyphus and other essays” 12). Other philosophers also agree with ...

I was wounded the one first time I considered Why are we here? When I wasn’t concern with The Meaning of Life, I was content. My comfortable state ignorance was reserving prayers for Christmas Eve, and Fantasy creatures peopling my imagination. I questioned nothing and accepted nearly anything for what it was. In short, I took the absurd seriously. Possibility was my rock. It would be the heaviest pebble I should ever keep as I experienced a moment too soon in my adolescence that there was no meaning in life. I became conscious. The adults around me lacked self-meaning, ...

Dian Fossey conservation efforts of the mountain gorillas is something a kin to legendary .She had formed a small force with an intent to help guard mountain gorillas against human beings. Dian threatened the hunters together with everyone who helped them in their poaching activities. However, not everyone was happy with her efforts. Some people condemned her very much for the way she treated hunters. For example, Rwandan officials were very much opposed to her efforts of controlling an area that she did not own. Still, some experts of animals heavily criticized Dian Fossey’s very strong emotional attachment to the gorillas. ...

Existentialism can be explained as a philosophical theory that insists on the existence of an individual as; a person should be free as well as determine their own development and destiny through the actions of their will and feelings. According to the theory, a person begins with the feeling of confusion in a life that seems meaningless as well as hopelessness. It is confusion that an individual makes personal discovery and accepts life the way it is while working hard for their development. During the late ninetieth century, with the word war and other happenings of the time, philosophers tried to reflect in ...

Philosophy Questions

The main quotations which are evident and interesting in this text includes “though what we perform now were going to counts in many years, how could that maintain our current situations from being absurd?” This quotation simply tries to explain the view that absurdity fundamentally lies on the notion that anything we do will especially our actions matter in the near future. The next instrumental quote proposed by Nigel is that life is absurd since we ignore doubts which cannot be fulfilled, making them to continue living with almost uncontrollable carefulness despite all these doubts .the quotation thoroughly explains ...

Even though human history is composed of men and women the inequality between women and men has been evident for a very long time. For quite a long time the status, social status and on occasion even household status, of women have been controlled by men. The difference in position between female and male is not only the class in family, but in addition the social relationships. In all human's culture, a woman is recognized as a mother. A mother's main purpose is imitation; where a man’s purpose has been seen to have more power, someone who must take on more responsibilities, like ...

Meursault is the main character of the novel “The Stranger,” in which Camus wanted to emphasize the problem of belief in contemporary society. According to Camus, the most serious issue is the inability to believe in reality, observe what happens in the moment, and the inability to live life as it is rather than being concerned with nihilism and contemplating the absurd (Francev, 2010). The novel shows three stages of development, through which Meursault eventually learns to deal with the lack of meaning in life. In the first part of the book, Meursault is an isolated being who ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

The world of Marcel Duchamp’s artwork and influence on the modern art.

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Art180- Modern Art History

2519 words There have been many famous and excellent artists in the twentieth century. Their art works are famous until now not only in their country but also all over the world and a lot of current artists follow them.Even though they do not exist now any more and their art works are pretty antique, they influence on current artists a lot.Some of artists are very famous so people,who are even not related to art, know their name at least. Marcel Duchamp is one of them. Many people say “There is no innovate art after Marcel Duchamp.” This ...