Existentialism, the philosophy that life is meaningless if one fails to find their own purpose, is not one that is widely seen in film. American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes, is a film that revolves around the theme of existentialism. Lester Burnham, the main character, a sad, troubled 42 year old man, married to a ...
Shortly after he published The Stranger in 1942, Camus also published a philosophical essay titled The Myth of Sisyphus later in the same year. Unlike The Stranger which was seen by many to be almost typical of other existentialist writings, yet contained ideas indicative of the theory of Absurdism only to a subliminal extent, this ...
In The Stranger, some of the most significant events, for example, awakenings, discoveries, changes in consciousness, are mental or psychological. Albert Camus manages to give Meursault’s internal events the sense of suspense and climax associated with external action through stream of consciousness, the narrator’s conflict with other characters and subtle inferences into existentialism and absurdity. ...
An examination of the Humanistic and Trait theories of personality reveals that while there are many differences between the two theories, there are very few similarities. Humanistic and Trait theories are in agreement that one’s personality is established, at least in part, by the choices one makes. In all actuality, Humanistic theory and Trait theory ...
Having attained the status of an absurdist through the publishing of his philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus, all that was left to do is even further develop Camus’ theory of absurdism, yet through an indirect means which invokes reflection and thought. Camus wrote The Plague, his second novel, which was published in 1947. The ...
The domain of philosophically-inclined literature saw with it the development of an idea of broad-spanned and rather decrepit status. This was existentialism, dating back in origin far before it had been brought to light successfully in modern literature. Following increasing familiarity, and due to the French existentialist movement in which Camus was greatly involved, a ...
There are as many definitions of creative writing as there are people in the world. In general, a person who is uneducated about creative writing pedagogy might think of a creative writer as somewhat of a Shakespearean figure (Haake 4), while the creative writing student might be unable to separate the term creative writing from ...