Hell is other people : Wuthering Heights, Pan and No Exit

Hell is other people. Sartre's play No Exit illustrates the maxim in showing how human desires and conceptions of the world are necessarily in conflict with that of an Other. Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights and Knut Hamsun's Pan, similarly, present the irreconcilable conflict o...

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Main Author: Kanika Bhandari
Other Authors: Terence Richard Dawson
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-656212019-12-10T11:14:20Z Hell is other people : Wuthering Heights, Pan and No Exit Kanika Bhandari Terence Richard Dawson School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Language::English Hell is other people. Sartre's play No Exit illustrates the maxim in showing how human desires and conceptions of the world are necessarily in conflict with that of an Other. Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights and Knut Hamsun's Pan, similarly, present the irreconcilable conflict one experiences with an Other that reduces existence to a figurative hell that is far hellish than any mythical representation of hell. If not factual accuracy, what, then, is the purpose of myth? Narratives and myths allow for the existence of alternate universes where the supplementary act of imagination can fill in the gaps in human understanding to create complete and whole conceptions of the world and provide an expression of, as well as an escape from, the absurdity of human life. Bachelor of Arts 2015-11-24T01:35:02Z 2015-11-24T01:35:02Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65621 en Nanyang Technological University 40 p. application/pdf
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Hell is other people : Wuthering Heights, Pan and No Exit
description Hell is other people. Sartre's play No Exit illustrates the maxim in showing how human desires and conceptions of the world are necessarily in conflict with that of an Other. Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights and Knut Hamsun's Pan, similarly, present the irreconcilable conflict one experiences with an Other that reduces existence to a figurative hell that is far hellish than any mythical representation of hell. If not factual accuracy, what, then, is the purpose of myth? Narratives and myths allow for the existence of alternate universes where the supplementary act of imagination can fill in the gaps in human understanding to create complete and whole conceptions of the world and provide an expression of, as well as an escape from, the absurdity of human life.
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