This document discusses existentialism, highlighting three key points: individuality, freedom, and choice. It provides examples from ancient Hindu texts like the Ramayana and Mahabharata to illustrate existentialist ideas. It also examines modern examples like films that depict thrownness and absurdity when life does not provide what is needed. In the end, the document notes that while existentialism advocates living freely, reality requires following societal rules and dealing with family problems, raising questions about how existentialist ideas can truly be lived.

1. EXISTANTIALISM PAST AND
PRESENT
By Rajdip Gohel
Sem:- 3
Paper 9:-The Modern Literature

2. CONTEXT
 About Existantialism.
 Three points
 Example of Ramayana or Mahabharata
 Example of modern time.
 Absurd things
 So what?

3. ABOUT EXISTANTIALISM
 Existantialism originated with the 19th Century philosophers Soren and Nietzsche.
 Existentialism is a Philosophical way of talking.
 It sees humans, with will and consciousness, as being in a world of objects which
do not have those qualities.
 The fact that humans are conscious of their mortality, and must make decisions
about their life is what existentialism is all about.

4. THREE POINTS
 Main three key points are:
1) Individual

2) Freedom
3)Choice

5. EXAMPLE OF RAMAYANA
 Sita have freedom and choice to go with ram or not.
 But she goes, not as her freedom of choice but as
wife.
 Old Idea that if ram goes anywhere his wife goes
with husband.
 Ram have freedom of choice to suicide in river.
 Because of he was God and no one can kill ram, so
his opinion to not live long and he was responsible
for suicide.

6. MAHABHARATA
 Droupadi loved Arjuna as her freedom of
choice.
 But she married all five, it’s not her choice.
 Her opinion is that Arjuna can protect me in
every situation, and she was responsible for
that opinion.
 Old idea comes that any one came with
somethings there becomes dived with each
brother.

7. EXAMPLES FROMTODAY’STIME
 We not choose to breaks heart
 We have freedom but what about
empty pockets
 We think for self only but it gives
failures.
 If one thing we have another take by
God

8. CONTINUE…..
 Baby boss movie.
 He choose to born become a leader. But can’t
 He have not freedom, to do whatever he think, because he
is child and part of one family.
 Idea of thrownness without our permission.
 Born is not in our hand but death is.
 Not gave choice to where I have to go
 Not gave freedom that I do job or not.

9. ABSURDITY
 If life not give what we need, we feel
absurd, meaningless.
 So If science not invent new things,
news created things like absurd.

10. SOWHAT?
 This idea is somewhere problematic.
 Because you have to free from society rules live your own
way, leave family as your choice.
 In reality if we read Existantialism it gave hope to live
freely but it not goes like that.
 You have follow rules, live with family problems etc..
 And at the end some question are comes like given in
image.
 And than you feel goes back home live life with family.
Kind of things come.