Existentialism : 'Waiting for Godot'

                                   Existentialism : 'Waiting for Godot'

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Video 1: What is Existentialism?


                                   
            
         The first person who referred to himself as an existentialism and founded the whole movement was John Paul Sartre an extension is in fact highly associated with him he not considered.

             First Existentialism it's common to believe existentialist start with Kierkegaard despite the fact that we can apply the term existentialism to many a great thinker and writer such as ..........

Kierkegaard Nietzsche, Dashefsky, Kafka Heidegger, Should stop, Hermann, Hesse sword etc......

              Important parts which village constitute existialism passion are freedom so instead of looking at existentialism with the emphasis on the individual at it's core and other subjects covering and coating the core I suggest that you think of it as a triangle with individuality, freedom, and passions as its three sides that might be one reason why believing or not believing in God would ingredients ones holding a title as an existentialist.

              Existentialism is mainly popular among young people mostly because it touches on subjects which a person in his or her youth might be strugging with let's face it whose attention will be attracted to a subject like suicide, anguish, thanks, absurdity, passion, emotions, their, freedom, or even despair etc........

    


Video 2: The Myth of Sisyphus: The Absurd reasoning (feeling of the Absurd).

                                          In this video we'II be talking about an absurd reasoning Camus starts this essay by bringing our attention to an intriguing and some what unention start he writes there is but one truly serious probiem and that is suicide.....

                                           Example: Movie ' Stay' where you run across sentences like these how did he kill himself he shot himself on the Brooklyn bridge he said it was the best art work of the 19 the century.

Video 3: The Myth of Sisyphus: the notion of philosophical suicide.

           

                                         philosophical suicide was what made me fall in love with Camus when I was 16 becausr it's one thing to recognize the absurd and it's quite another to embrace it and accept these, consequences most people don't even hesitate to reflect upon life to see it's absurdity.

                                        Philosophy called suicide there can be no absurd outside the human mind thus like every thing else the absurd ends with death that's why you could either negate yourself to get away from the absurd and commit physical suicide or you could also dent the absurd and live I'm perpetual denial and commit Philadelphia suicide in which case you would kill yourself as a philosopher to avoid the absurd once you've recognized.

                                           A total absence of hope : Despair

                                           A continual rejection : Renunciation

                                          A conscious dissatisfaction : Immature unrest

                                    Two forms of suicide and these " I am taking the liberty at this point of calling the exlstential attitude philosophical suicide "

                                  Philosophical suicide " like suicide, Gods change with men. There are many ways of leaping, the essential, being to leap"

Video 4: Dadaism, Nihilism and Existentialism.

                                                   1816 data movement grows up against worid war one for most people Dadaism is associated with Nihilism.

                                                     Existentialism emerged after worid war 2 as a movement another series of doctrines as an answer to the absurdity of life this is comparable to the Dada movement a few artists such as Hugo ball, yonko, jean, arp, Cesaro and many others were disgusted by the war moved to Zurich and founded the movement.

                                                 Dadaism the reason wasn't about our time being all artistic it's merely an art movementis not really art pain free of any rules is what made it vulnerable to become accused of Nihilism but it was devoid of rules for good reasons it'svery nature was questioning and objecting the already existing values in order to overcome them you could even say that item was the Socrates of the war years it is ad if though Nietzsche odd reason these words to describe the movement.

                                                     " Whom do they hate most?

 Him who breaks up their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker. He , however, it the creator."

                                        " How can one get rid of every thing that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, Europeanised, enervated ?"

                                                                                                            by Saying dada

                                            Nihilism have nothing to do with each other both are fed up with everyday life and it's arbitrary values and that's where the similarity stops the reason wasn't an extension or a Nihilistic movement it was only a response to world war one just as the extensionism was a response to war two dresses an absurdist would recognize the absurdity of life and embrace if bizarro writes the absurd " The absurd doesn't frighten me, because from a more elevated point of view, I consider everything in life to be absurd"

Video 5: Existentialism - a gloomy philosophy. 

                               


                                           Exustentialusm is often accused of being a gloomy Philosophy while there is the truth ti this claim we must look at the whole picture.

                                            Why existentialism thought of as a gloomy philosophy because notions such as anxicty, despair and absurdity.

                                     Existentialism is a narcissistic philosophy being an Nietzsche puts it become.e who you are I've also heard of people saying how exist on shells that will inevitably lead to Nihilism right just as a beer or a 

                                                            Existentialism........Nihilism

                                                           Cigarette.............   Heroin

                                       So does exist Angelle them to Nihilism not that I have anything to say against Nihilism but nothing ean be further from the truth,

                                       Existentialism was a response to this emptiness after worid war II people's lives seemed to have became meaningless and filled with despair it was in such an atmosphere the exists an shells them came to people's rescue and offered a cure.

Video 6 : Existentialism and Nihilism : It is one and the same?

                                           In the sixth video, Existentialism is opposed to Nihilism because Nietzsche believes that Nihilism comes after existentialist thinking. As per my understanding Nihilism ‘s shows us that everything is meaningless in the world and we are tempted by an objective scheme of things. And on the other hand existentialist thinker believes that there is no single meaning but we create our personal meaning for life. So in that point Nietzsche disagree with Nihilism because it ties our thinking ability and existentialism gives us more to look insight and judge it critically.

  
Video 7: Let us introduce Existentialism again

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                                                 Existentialism greatest works of philosophy and literature western civilization has ever seen however putting one's finger on what existentialism is proves quite difficult the goal of this lecture is to help  people better understand existentialism more specifically we wibriefly go over the history of existentialism.

                                              Existentialism become especially prominent in the mid 20- the century.....

Franz Kafka, Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau Ponty...........

Video 8 : Explain like i am five: Existentialism and Nietzsche

                                        Existentialism can be summed of these points:

                   1) We live in a chaotic and meaningless universe.

                   2) We made meaning and structures in our lives.

                   3) So we create this meaning and structure ourselves.

Video 9 : Why I like existentialism? Eric Dodson.

           

                                           Existentialism & Friedrich Nietzsche:-We can make our own rules.making of rules is basically highlighted here.Ubermenschen Superhero of Nietzsche serves our wills & desires.individual is remains in the center.

After watching all videos i would like to give my preference to two videos out of them.

Very first video gives brief but yet helpful ideas of Existentialism.as it has no value except our wills.life has no meaning until it can't lived. Feedbacks of lived once signifies here.

Choice-Freedim-Respinsibilty: Individual

    Existentialism comes as optimistic.

video 10 : Let us sum up: from Essentialism to Existentialism. 

                                     Philosophy is about the dialectic: someone puts forth an idea and then someone else responds to it. Sometimes, the response comes an right away, in other cases, it takes thousands of years. In ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle took is as given that everything has an essence - a certain set of core properties that are necessary, or essential - a certain set for a thing to be what it is. The things which gives defining function , is the essential property. Plato and Aristotle thought that everything has an essence - including us. "Essence precedes our Existence".   

Answer 1)

. My favorite video is Video no 

  2) Because this video all about our absurdity. when we feel absurd and hopeless our life so we kill ourself.

Digdarshak - Hindi Play: दिगदर्शक - हिन्दी नाटक:

            Digdarshak - Hindi Play: दिगदर्शक - हिन्दी नाटक:

                             ‘ Digdarshak’ Hindi one act play Theatre of Generation Next : Written by Priyam Jani Directed by Rishit Jhaveri.

in this play based on one debait is

 ' Cinema Versus Theatre'

                          So, Cinema is really just another word meaning moving picture. It also has come to mean more generally the process of film – making and also the building where films are shown. Theater is similar to Cinema, in that it can mean the building, or more generally the industry of live performance.

                             

                                                                            ‘Digdarshak’ two characters are played a vital role to cover the entire stage. One man who are the man of Theater and gave everything his life his time he has same expectation from his actors to be like him. Director used to flashback technique for clear the concept.

                               Myth of Ashwatthama also symbolically represent relation of student an artist and teacher as a trainer are also portrayed good, so such an interesting play.

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Yugpurush Mahatma Na Mahatma

                                      

                               Yugpurush Mahatma Na Mahatma is a 2016 Gujarati play based on the relationship between jain Philosopher Shrimad Rajchdra and Indian independence leader mahatma Gandhi

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                          Gandhjij inspire of the Shrimad Rajchndre. Shrimad said about such a saintly personality Gandhiji adds………..

                         “ We are all worldly people whereas Shrimad was not of this world. We will have to take many births whereas for Shrimad perhaps one birth is sufficient we will perhaps be running away from liberation whereas Shrimad was advancing to wards liberation at a very fast pace “

                       Satyagraha is the idea of nonviolent resistance started by Mohandas karamechad Gandhi. Gandhi used satyagraha and also during his earlier struggle in south Africa.

                                       

                     Rajchandraji had unbelievable spirit and knowledge. He was doing 100 works at the same time and he also inspire us that all human being try. This play is based on relation of Mahatma and Gandhiji.

               So, as a student of literature we learned many thing from this play.

                                

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The Hairy Ape

                   
                                              


      The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. It is about a brutish, unthinking laborer known as Yank, the protagonist of the play, as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich. 

                   The central character of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape is Yank, a fireman, or someone who stokes the coal furnace of transatlantic ships. He is brutish and opinionated. Yank is leader of the firemen and the play opens with him hanging out with his coworkers in the forecastle of the ship. Though he is able to command their attention easily, they don't hesitate to make fun of how he speaks. Yank mocks a fellow fireman when the fireman stands up to make a speech about how they are in a hell created by the upper class.

                   The upper class in The Hairy Ape is represented by Mildred, a socialite who likes to help the poor, and her aunt, who is traveling with her. Mildred, before setting off on the journey, worked with the poor in Manhattan's Lower East Side, and is on her way to do more work in Europe. Mildred's aunt calls her charity work 'slumming'. She tells Mildred that it just makes poor people feel bad if the upper class helps them. She thinks Mildred should leave the poor in peace and let them be poor. Mildred argues with her aunt and is waiting for one of the ship's engineers to take her down to the stokehole. She's lied to the engineer and said that her father, the president of Nazareth Steel Company, gave his permission for her to go below.

                      Yank is in New York City, having returned from the voyage during which he scared Mildred. He is walking around the city with Long, one of his fellow firemen. Long is trying to convince Yank the rich don't care about the working classes, so Yank tries to make one of the rich passers-by notice him and react. He purposefully bumps into people, but is largely ignored. He is arrested, though, for making a man miss his bus. In jail, he vows revenge against Mildred. His fellow prisoners suggest he join one of the unions upon his release.

                    When he is released, Yank goes to an ironworkers' union but is rejected because they think he is a government spy. He tells them he is a government spy. He tells them he wants to cause mayhem in the city to get back at the upper class, and they throw him out of the offices. Yank gets drunk and goes to the zoo, where he sees the gorilla in its cage. He tells the gorilla the he's a hairy ape too, and unlocks the cage to shake the gorilla's hand. The gorilla mauls him and throws yank into the cage, escaping while yank die

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All My Son : Arthur Miller

   
              All My Son : Arthur Miller

Here i am sharing my view about All My Son : Arthur Miller

         

         Introduction to the Play

                                     Arthur Miller was a playwright who was most active from the 1940s to the 1960s but continued to produce notable works and receive awards in his field up until his death in early 2005. All My Sons, a three-act play written by Miller in 1947, is one of his best-known works. All My Sons was adapted for the screen in 1948.

                                      

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                                            ALL MY SONS is one of the most popular plays of Arthur Miller. It reflects the moral, social, and political ideas of the society. It also reveals Miller’s view on human nature in a particular social context.

                                    The news story described how in 1941–43 the Wright Aeronautical Corporation based in Ohio had conspired with army inspection officers to approve defective aircraft engines destined for military use.The story of defective engines had reached investigators working for Sen. Harry Truman's congressional investigative board after several Wright aircraft assembly workers informed on the company; they would later testify under oath before Congress. In 1944, three Army Air Force officers, Lt. Col. Frank C. Greulich, Major Walter A. 

·      .............   Henrik Ibsen's influence on Miller is evidenced from the Ibsen play The Wild Duck, where Miller took the idea of two partners in a business where one is forced to take moral and legal responsibility for the other. This is mirrored in All My Sons.

                    

   

"The Hairy Ape" is a dark comedy

             √. Introduction

             The play is not a comedy but a dark comedy. There is a purpose behind the comedy. It is a comedy on the Scarface but beneath is tragedy. It's not clearly a comedy in the traditional manner a dark comedy has the elements of tragedy. Characters are comic situations, action reaction are comic but they suggest sadness lying below to them

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            √. Sub Title

              The play has sub title "A comedy of ancient and modern tide in eight scene." This is ambiguous. The play wrights ta tells it a comedy but his suggestion is something actually to comedy but their experience will say it is not end was never comic so how this play can be a comedy.

           √. Behaviour of Stokers

               There are various ethnic groups. Their languages are different. But their work place is common. They are crowded. They are rough people and don't have decency so they are shouting. Cursing laughing, singing, often they are confused and bewildered. They becomes furious. They are all drunk. Their clothes and shoes are ugly. Their bodies are half naked. They look as if monkeys are put into a cage. Their questioning swearing and abusing provide us laughter.

             √. The Crowds

            The play is having Crowds all most all the time as people loose their sense in a crowd the characters of the play also are some and look comic. They don't care for anybody. They firm irresponsible. The opening scene is an example. They make uproar we hear only voices. Who effect is comic in the company they push and again at the stokehold speeches of yank, long and paddy become comic. The 4th scene has again a crowd like the first scene and has vein of comedy.

               There is another crowd in centered to the stokers. It is found on the fifth avenue. There are sophisticated people. They have put on masks so who they are remain unknown. Their lack regarding the priest, the sermon and collecting the money bring satirical note and I'll intently we have smiles. A woman watching a monkey for shouts and jumps that is comic even yank and long are comic amongst the crowd.

               The 7th scene has again crowd of different people. There are common workers and visitors. The secretary's behavior and Yank's behaviour, their talk lead us to have gentle smile.

             √. Last Scene Comic

               Last scene the 8th one is funny. We are shifted to a zoo. There is a cage in which a gorilla is found. The monkey's behaviour is comic but yank provides more comedy. His behaviour is similar to the Ape he acts like a monkey. Similarly the Ape also responds accordingly. This type of action and redaction continua for a  while we have more fun when yank goes near to the Ape and shakes hands with it.

            √. The Pause : Robin's "The Tinker"

             Yank often takes the pause of Robin's "The Tinker" . It provides own. In the last scene it brings similarity to the Ape Yank looks like a monkey and into that addition this gesture differentiates him on the other side comedy. While he is sitting in this position others are busy in doing works or they make Jokes at him. Yank isn't a man of thinking while this pause makes us to thing about him.

         √. Paddy's Speeches

              Paddy's romantic speeches should be marked here very first speeches comic. He says........
                                      "I'M never too drink to sing"
But axially he is too drink and later on stars singing. His voice is nasal, thin and fine doleful yank rebukes him saying " Old harp" he often speaks much. In the same first scene his dialogue is very long. He suddenly shouts often he laugh gaudy in a manner of " ho.....ho.......ho.......ho........"
His a regiments with yank also provides gun his songs are also related to Waly and carelessness.  

                √. Long's Speech

               Long has different views. His are leftist views. He prefers non violence rather than violence. When others are abusing to the rich he says they should change misery. This is fun for others.
              
             Thus the play has comic elements and they entertain us.
           

Q:2 Character Sketch of Yank

       
          

              √. A Central character

               A central character the story of the play is related to yank. He is the ape in the play on the first scene to the last he remains at the center. We find his tragic story. He is common worker but he raises himself up on caught. He raises himself up on caught. He forms but he has tried to come out from the bottom of the life. So he stands higher than his makes threw him he writer sons to tell his view.

             √. Yank's Look

              A stronger man yank appearance is heavy. He scene border. His look fearful his strength and his height give supetify like other. He has help naked his cheaser is hairy. He looks live an ape. That's why ape is the hairy apehisvoices also strong others are fearful they have to respect him.

            √. Family Back Ground

                He comes from a poor family. They where not religious Yank's parents never went to church, but they pushed yank to the church. His father did not go to the sea he worked along sure has further had fallen into a bad habit of drinking. It firmenfed him and died. His mother also them he run away from the home.

            √. Hard Work

               In the beginning yank did odd jobs. Then he came on translantie line. His stoker his position is in stokehold. It is faitic job one reachers strong physical power ovarmous heavy fire. It most burns him and other. The work there scean is filled tened. There is little air smoke and fames as well as living flames make the place tallish. Those, who work in stokchole have to suffered alone.

                √. A Tragic Harp

                Yank is tragic hero he looks comic, but it is mask within the heart there is fire he considers himself as the still but they reality is biting even he is not a Conan animal a monkey he tries to establish with the hairy ape. But the beast has it's play's in the zoo has he Identity but his plays is not with the monkey in search of Identity. He passes threw terrible experience he is insulted jailed an altimantly freed to meet the death even those is command man we pity him because we all common man tried ti come out on the condition of the life.