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Existentialism
Title: Existentialism
Category: Literature / English
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Existentialism
Are Caulfield of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Meursault of Albert Camus’ The Stranger existential heroes?
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” Steven Weinberg
An existentialist is one who acts freely and responsibly accepts the consequences of his actions, who lacks any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong, good or bad (Shaw 148-149).Webster’s defines the philosophy as being centered upon the emotional …showed first 75 words of 2520 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2520 total…Today. 244-274. Rpt. in Twentieth Century in Literary Criticism. Vol. 42 Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1987. 198-204.
Rhein, Phillip H. Albert Camus. Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1969. 33-40.
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little Brown and Company. May 1991.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. “An Explication of The Stranger” Camus’s The Outsider.1947. Rpt. in Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Germaine Brée. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc. 1962. 108-121.
Shaw, Harry. Dictionary of Literary Terms. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1972.
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