Hemingway

1. Hemingway Let’s wrap up

2. Biographical review • His style was plain and simple. It employed everyday language and realistic dialogue. • For the time, Hemingway's subject matter was also new and bold. • He wrote frankly about love, war, and death. • A central theme in Hemingway's work is how the individual fits into society, and how one should live in what often seems to be a crazy and difficult world

3. Existentialism : What it is and isn’t • Religious explanations : • Religious views believe that God had a concept in mind of what man, and the world, would be. Then he created man. • Thus, the concept (essence) came before man’s existence. • Existentialism is based on the position that there is no God that creates all things. • For existentialists, man’s existence is first. After man exists, he chooses his destiny (chooses to create). • Thus, existence precedes essence.

4. Examples of Existentialism • EXAMPLE : What is this? • EXAMPLE : How old are you?

5. Existentialism and hemingway • Existentialism – • emphasizes individual existence, freedom, and choice • influenced many diverse writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. • For existentialists, nothing is fixed. Choice is central to human existence, and it is inescapable; even the refusal to choose is a choice • For Hemingway, we are born into a world without purpose, order, or meaning. • When confronted with nada man must make a choice on how he will create his meaning.

6. It’s your choice • You can either choose to live a life of dignity where you face your uncertain future with the desire to “live it up”… • …Or you can fall into despair believing that there is nothing (nada) to live for and all is hopeless.

7. a lil’ Calvin and Hobbes for ya