Essays about: "Existentialis"

Found 1 essay containing the word Existentialis.

  1. 1. The Sorrows of Young Jude - Sartre’s Concept of Freedom in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Julia Karlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Literature; Sartre; Yanagihara; Existentialis; Freedom; Being and Nothingness; Tragedy; Determinism; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life (2015) is about Jude St Francis, a successful lawyer whose inability to recover from his traumatic childhood causes him to commit suicide. This essay investigates why Jude is able to control and alter certain aspects of his life, but how he still is ultimately and finally dominated by his emotional trauma. READ MORE