Consider the following examination of Jean-Paul Sartre?s existentialist philosophy: [In] His greatest work ??Being and Nothi

“[In] His greatest work – Being and Nothingness – [Jean-Paul Sartre examined the central theme of his philosophy: freedom of the individual. Humans, he says, are profoundly free to creat their own lives and thus are entirely responsible for defining the meaning and moral relevance of their existence….Unlike almost every philosopher before him, he not only believes that we are free but also insists that we are radically free. We may be influenced by the factors of nature and nurture (heredity and environment), but ultimately we are not determined by them. We are totally free – free to define ourselves by our own lights and capable of resisting the physical, psychological, and social forces that will thoroughly shape us if we let them….As Sartre says, ‘We are condemned to be free.’ The blessing is that as free persons, we have the power to set our own goals, live our own lives, and create ourselves as we go. The curse is that as free beings, we can look to no one but ourselves to decide how we should live. We carry this burden alone. We must bear the awesome moral responsibility of deciding how we should live, how we should treat others, and what values we should prescribe for the rest of the world through our actions. We can celebrate our capacity to create our essence and live by our own rules, but because we are utterly alone in bearing this monumental burden, we are also condemned to experience great anguish, despair, and a sense of abandonment” (Vaughn 334-335).

Vaughn, Lewis. “Existentialism.” Living Philosophy, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 318-348.

• • • consider how the set, props, characters, and action within this scene help to support your analysis
    • make sure that for each detail you include that you provide a proper MLA in-text citation
      • • the MLA format for movie in-text citations: (firstwordofmovietitle beginningtimestampofscene – endingtimestampofscene)
          • example: (A Man 15:25-23:55)
    • make sure that for each detail you include in your analysis that you also provide thorough analysis of that detail, as we’ve been practicing in our visual analysis assignments, so that your reader can understand the argument in your close reading