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Metamorphosis Notes
Existentialism is the philosophical believe we are each
responsible for creating purpose or meaning in our own lives.
Our individual purpose and meaning are not given by Gods,
governments, teachers or other authorities.
Regards human existence as unexplainable the philosophy of
existentialism feels unaware with society industrial one means,
one way of policy, taking your individual freedom away.
The individuals have power to create their own purpose.
Existential thought is a product of how modern system started
to think about the world.
For the existentialist thinkers such us Friedrich Nietzsche,
there is no life after the death.
All source of societal norms including religions forms are
unreliable.
Alienation is one of post-industrial society.
A novel that stands itself analysis under the umbrella of
existentialism.
Existentialism is a way of seeing life of existence. That is why
Gregor doesn’t support or criticize the existentialism.
Gregor under immediate threat by the pressure of post-
industrial society. The details of his work are very important.
For example, he wakes up at five morning o’clock, and he takes
his train to work. Built on this, Gregor disconnected his
environment. This what modernist world society does to is
subject (debases)
Post-industrial society and its dehumanizing effect they are just
like COGS.
Jean-Paul Sartre is considered one of the most existentialist
thinkers in the 20th century.
Kafka’s life was full of reason to be or to feel inferior to others.
he felt unconnected to his religion. He was philosophically
Prepared by Abdelhamid A.Abdelkader