NIGHT: Chapter 4
Symbolism of 3: Threeness or triad, has always been considered sacred–like oneness, duality, and all numbers–by virtue of its very properties and particular attributes. These properties and attributes are manifested in its threefold nature, which of itself is the inevitable expression of a principle, an archetypal fact, that solidifies in a series, as a representation of ideas and energies that materialize in magical, mysterious fashion while obeying precise, universal laws, which the numerical codes and their geometrical correspondences symbolize.
Homework!
Record your thoughts in your reactionary journal......
Chapter 5: Due Monday
"Existentialism” is a term that belongs to intellectual history. The term was explicitly adopted as a self-description by Jean-Paul Sartre, and became identified with a cultural movement that flourished in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s.
Existentialism was as much a literary phenomenon as a philosophical one. Sartre's own ideas were and are better known through his fictional works (such as Nausea and No Exit), than through his more purely philosophical ones (such as Being and Nothingness and Critique of Dialectical Reason). Artists linked under the term: Dostoevsky, Ibsen, and Kafka; expatriate Samuel Beckett; even abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock.
How can we define it simply?
As a philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts.
ASSIGNMENT:
Define existentialism in your own words, then apply it to a piece of Elie Wiesel's novel, Night.
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ReplyDeleteExistentialism states that everybody is free and able to do what they want with their lives. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, this is shown on how the Nazis take this ability from the Jews in the camps during the infamous Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteExistentialism is when people live their lives the way they want and they do not have to worry about what anyone else. Existentialism focuses on freedom, pain, guilt and regret rather than the science. One example of existentialism is freedom of speech and choice. Like Alex said, this was taken away from the Jews during the holocaust at the concentration camp. We know that their freedom of speech was taken away because if they did speak out, they would have most likely been killed
ReplyDeleteExistentialism is the idea that there is no rational explanation for why human beings do what they do. It explains that there are different natures in everybody, and each person makes choices based on their own personal beliefs, instead of for a deeper reason. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, existentialism is practiced by the Nazis. They don't seem to have any real reason to do such unthinkable things, but they believe it is of their choice to do these things. They take away the freedom of choice from Jews, which is ironic.
ReplyDeleteExistentialism is an approach that focuses on the reality of an individual person as free. Each individual is responsible for deciding their own acts and how they will act upon a certain situation. Existentialism connects with the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel because the Nazi officers act recklessly and kill Jews everyday during the Holocaust. The Nazi officers could get away with anything during the time of the Holocaust. Throughout the novel, Elie explains the horrendous conditions he has faced and the amount of beatings and murders he has witnessed daily with millions of other Jews. It’s unexplainable because the Jews were innocent and did not deserve to be treated this way, Hitler had blamed them for all of the wrong in Germany after the war which was completely unfair.
ReplyDeleteExistentialism is the theory that each and every individual is in titled to the freedom and responsibility in choosing his or her own development. In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, readers see how the philosophy of existentialism was taken away from all the Jewish people during the holocaust. It was not fair that these people were made to go to concentration camps and be tortured. They were forced out of their homes with little to no warning. The Nazi’s took their right in choosing their own development away in forcing them to go to these horrible camps.
ReplyDeleteExistentialism is the idea that everyone is free to do as they please, and live life how they want too. And example of existentialism is when the jewish people's rights were taken away by the germans for no good reason and they were sent to concentration camps and ruled by the Germans with no say in anything. A jewish persons life or death was up to the Germans.
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ReplyDeleteExistentialism is defined that all people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves. A person has a given rights and should be able to make there own decisions. This isnt shown in the book Night by Elise Weisel. The jews in this book were stripped of all there rights directly after they were foreced to the ghettos then moved to the camps. They didnt have any choice in anything and thats the opposite of what existentialism means.
ReplyDeleteExistentialism is a philosophy that everybody is free and takes responsibility for their own actions and can shape their destiny. In Night by Elie Wiezel Elie and his father, and all the other prisoners in the concentration camp were not free and had to do as told by the Germans and officers in the camp, if not they were either beaten or killed. In addition, they definitely were not able to shape their own destiny because the Nazi’s only allowed them to do so much, but the only thing on anybodies mind was survival.
ReplyDeleteExistentialism is a philosophical approach to understanding human existence and experiences. It is based on the assumption that individuals are free and responsible for their own choices and actions.(According to Sherly Ankrom) This belief is the act of being an individual and not worrying about others. This belief is not present in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. The jews had lost all their individual rights and were to do as told by the Germans.
ReplyDeleteexistentialism means that all people have the right to freedom and to live a life they want to live. existentialism relates to the book because all Jews were denied their existentialism and much more. They were brutally murdered and treated with no mercy. The prisoners were being tortured let alone denied their existentialism.
ReplyDeleteexistentialism is the idea that one has the right to the freedom of choice. existentialism is not present in Night by Eie Wiesel because Elie and the others were not allowed to do what they wanted, because they were being oppressed and abused by the Nazis.
ReplyDeleteExistentialism is an individual's ability to determine their own choices to shape their life the way they want it. This is a part of the human condition because humans go through daily life doing this everyday making their life. this was not present in "Night" beacuse since they were prisenors they did things against their will.
ReplyDeleteExistentialism is "you can use this word in pretty much any context and it will make you sound pretentious and/or confuse the person you're talking to." Existentialism is not present in Night by Eie Wiesel because Elie and the others were not allowed to do what they wanted, because they were being oppressed and abused by the Nazis.
ReplyDeleteI think that its really sad that people can do such horrible things to each other. I dont get how all this things are happening and in the news yet nothing is being done to prevent them. I find it intersesting how we learn only about things in the past and not the what happening in the present. This shows how evil man really can be.
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