existentialism
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Literature
The Emergence of New Literary Forms and Styles in Modernist Literature: A Revolution in Writing
The modernist movement in literature emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a response to the changing world around them. Writers sought to break away from the conventions of traditional literature and create new forms and styles that would better reflect the rapidly changing world they lived in. The emergence of new literary forms and styles in…
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Existentialism
Notes From underground as an Existentialism novel
The novel Notes from Underground was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1864. The story revolves around the life and thoughts of a sick, unhappy, and lonely guy who rants in his journal. Dostoevsky’s “underground man” is frequently restless, generally cruel, and totally cut off from other people. The “underground man’s” rants are brutally independent and honest. Notes from Underground by…
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Existentialism
Sartre’s Concepts of Existentialism and Their Differences
In an essay, Sartre makes an attempt to answer 4 criticisms of Existentialism: Existentialism is a type of “desperate quietism” that enables no room for solutions to the issues of human existence. Existentialism is a type of pessimism (a philosophy of despair), preoccupied with the dark and adverse features of human existence. Existentialism propagates a doctrine of atomistic individualism and…
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