Part one of term paper
Every mind has struggled with Existentialism. Its founders toiled to define it, philosophers strained to grasp it, teachers have a difficult time explaining it. Where do these Existentialists get the right to tell me that my one and only world is meaningless? How can a student believe that someone was sitting in jail and figured out that o ...

Part two of term paper
... be put into the context of the human situation. Through stories and situations the ideas are defined - Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and theater of the absurd plays like Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Eugene Ionesco’s Amedee - they spin you around on your chair so you are facing the real world, and then shove you right into the middle of it. Existentialism especially turns our attenti ...