For our last stretch, we'll be looking at existentialism and its application in literature and our lives. To start, we need to figure out what existentialism is.
Existentialism is the idea that the world is inherently meaningless, and we must make it meaningful for ourselves. Existentialism rejects essentialism - which argues that meaning inherently exists as the essence of all things.
Sartre’s "Ratchet Up the Anguish"
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Next, the Myth of Sisyphus and Camus:
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