Sartre’s Nausea Combines Phenomenology and Existentialist.

Nausea Combines Phenomenology and Existentialist

Nausea is a novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre. This novel fictionalizes Sartrean brand of existentialism. It represents a world without god or meaning. It discovers the meaninglessness of existence through an enquiry into the perceptual understanding of the universe. Based on these observations, we shall attempt to reveal how Sartre's Nausea combines phenomenology and existentialism.

Discuss the theme of Good and Evil in Lord of the Flies.

Good and Evil in Lord of the Flies

The struggle between good and evil is the central theme of the central theme of the Lord of the Flies. This theme has been presented through the conflicts between the conch group and the savages, between the boys and the terrifying 'beast' and between rescue from a passing ship and imprisonment on the increasingly insane island. But the major conflict between good and evil lies in the bitter struggle between Ralph and Jack for power and leadership on the island.

Discuss the Significance of the Mock - Hunts in Lord of Flies.

Significance of the Mock - Hunts in Lord of Flies

The mock-hunts in Lord of the Flies are symbols of primitivism and barbarism. The mock- hunt begins as a pure sport for the sake of fun but gradually it turns into savagery and cruelty. There are three mock hunts in the novel.

What is a Code Hero? Would you call Santiago a Hemingway Code Hero?

Code Hero

Hemingway character or code hero himself would never speak of a code. He is a man of action rather than a man of theory. We call him the code hero because he represent a code according to which the hero, by  observing it, would  be able to live properly in the world of violence, disorder, and misery to which he has been introduced and which he inhabits. The code hero thus offers certain principles of honor, courage and endurance which in a life of tension and pain make a man a man and enable him to conduct himself well in the losing battle-that is life. Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea is the code hero at his best.

Do you consider The Old Man and the Sea as an Allegory of Man's Struggle in Life?

"The Old Man and the Sea" as an Allegory of Man's Struggle in Life

Literally The Old Man and the Sea is a story of an old fisherman's single-handed fight with a huge fight in the Gulf Stream north of Havana, but it has various allegorical interpretations. First it may be regarded as a Christian allegory. It has also been treated as an allegory of an artist's struggle with his material. But the story may be seen as an epic metaphor for life. Human life is here depicted as a struggle against the unconquerable forces of the world, in which a kind of victory is nevertheless possible. Hemingway portrays here Santiago, a simple old fisherman who is capable of an extraordinary dignity and heroism by means of which he wins a moral victory, even though he faces a heartbreaking defeat.

Jaques is a Bundle of Inconsistencies

According to Stanley Wood, Jaqus is a bundle of inconsistencies. He is a mixture of ‘witty sensibility and merry sadness’. He is a child of folly and a professor of wisdom. At one moment he loves his melancholy better than his laughing, but at another moment, he

laughs ‘sans intermission an hour by his dial’. At one time he seeks society; at another he avoids the company of man. He has been sensual in his youth and has exhausted all the pleasures of the artificial life of the court. He is a man of lively imagination and artistic temperament. Being deceived in his intercourse with man, he turns from the vanities of the court to seek comfort and consolation in nature and solitude. But he cannot change his nature. He has not within him the spirit of reverence and contentment to lead him to true happiness. Thus, he is a bundle of inconsistencies. 

 

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Comment on the Wooing Scene?

Wooing Scene

The marriage scene, in addition to contrasting the Duchess’s vivid personality with Antonio’s rather passive one, foreshadows the tragedy to come. It opens with the Duchess telling Antonio she wants to write her will, immediately evoking the thought of death. The Duchess’s metaphors and allusions, too, often invoke death she is into an alabaster statue kneeling a her husband’s tomb; she refers to her marriage to Antonio as a Gordian knot, a knot that could not be untied unless cut with “violence”; and she says they can put an 

unsheathed sword between them in bed to keep them chaste, which introduces a weapon into their intimacy. Thus while this end of the act is largely happy, Webster gives the audience plenty of warning that such happiness will not last. The contradictions in the Duchess’s character between her valiant refusal to bow before social mores and her willfulness on directly and imprudently countering the protestations of her brothers are summarized in Cariola’s final soliloquy, which questions whether the Duchess is a model of greatness or simply a madwoman.

What is Mephistophilis’s Conception of Hell?

Mephistophilis’s Conception of Hell

Mephistophilis is the chief agent of the Devil, Lucifer. But his conception of hell is different from that of Faustus. Mephistophilis lives in constant hell. As Mephistophilis appears before Faustus in response to his conjuring speeches, he (F) asked him (M) how he has come out of hell to visit Faustus. Mephistophilis tells him that he is never out of hell. He does not mean any particular place to which Lucifer and his followers have been confined. Hell means loss of heaven. He explains that once he was fortunate enough to see the

face of God and to enjoy eternal peace and blessings of heaven. He has now been totally deprived of that heavenly bliss. This losing heavenly bliss has now become a source of acute suffering and torture that may be caused by ten thousand hells. When Faustus asked him about the location of hell, Mephistophilis tells him that hell is located in the underworld within the bowels of the earth. All sinful spirits dwell there and are tortured forever. He explains that, in fact, hell does not have any boundary and it is not confined to a single place.

 

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