meaningless life essay

Life is an endless adventure. In Crossing the Swamp, the poet describes a speaker crossing a swamp and the difficulties that come along and reflects life upon the swamp. The poet uses metaphors, imagery, and structure to develop a bittersweet relationship between the speaker and the swamp; the speaker has a hard time crossing the swamp but realizes the beauty of nature that sprouts from the swamp and thus describes how life works. The poet uses the entire poem or the swamp specifically as a big metaphor

People will often turn to a belief that they hold dearly—whether it be a religion or philosophical viewpoint—in order to cope with the hardships that confront them. In “A Life Revealed,” Cathy Newman discusses the life of Sharbat Gula, the woman photographed and placed on the June cover of National Geographic in 1985, and the issue of the world’s cruelty that faces her. While her story is far different from Candide’s absurdly cynical tale in Voltaire’s Candide, they still share some similar aspects

acting the same. For example, "Jonas moved his hands together, clapping, but it was an automatic, meaningless gesture that he wasn't even aware of. His mind had shut out all of the earlier emotions: the anticipation, excitement, pride, and even the happy kinship with his friends. Now he felt only humiliation and terror" (p. 60). That shows that they don't even get to pick what they want to do in life, and can easily be humiliated when something doesn't go the same way things always

I read Ruby Redfort Take Your Last Breath by Lauren Child. The book was about Ruby, a thirteen year old secret agent, who has discovered several strange occurrences in her town. Birds and sea life are acting strange, boat shipments are getting mixed up, and strange voices are seemingly coming from the bottom of the ocean. Ruby has to figure out how all of it is connected, and who is behind it. One of the messages that the story has is that Clancy Crew, Ruby’s best friend, is deathly afraid of water

Accepting reality Often in our life we find ourselves in a difficult situation. Whether it be; being told that there is no meaning to life, being left in a life or death situation, or someone passing away unexpectedly due to the actions of others. In all of these predicaments we find that people often don't want to accept the reality of the situation because it would ruin their perception of what actually goes on in this world. They would have to give up the idea that everything that is going on

or there was nothing to have faith in the first place. Simultaneously, his major fear was discovering that life or religion itself was meaningless. The squire was atheist insulting the painter for the interpretation of death dancing with mortals. Squire was also mocking events in life by commenting through satire as if he doesn’t care. Overall, he doesn’t intend to focus about meaning of life. For example, after the blacksmith was in search of his wife, the squire tried to persuade him to go after

foundations of their life: whether their life has any meaning, purpose, or value. Sometimes there are men who will accept their fate graciously. Two works that depict these ideas are “The Death of Ivan Ilych” by Leo Tolstoy and “The Metamorphosis” by Kafka. In both works by Tolstoy and Kafka, the main characters at some point question their lives’ and what life means to them. In order to question one’s life, it would be necessary that one evaluate the decisions they make. A person’s life can change in any

writing has explained to me that life is supposed to be simple. He was able to find this simplicity in life from the extensive amount of time walking through the woods. I find this having a lot of meaning to me because of the time that I spend in the woods. All of the sports I have a large passion for I rely on the powers of nature to allow me to pursue them. My goals in life is to live simply and happily off nature's bounty. Reading Thoreau’s experiences of life has has

A book named The Giver by Lois Lowry published in 1993 teaches many life lessons that everyone needs to learn in some point in their life. In this novel it is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas who realizes his perfect society isn’t so perfect. When he was picked for the New Receiver of Memories he learned things that were hidden from the people of the community. The more Jonas learns about the past the more he wants to change how the community sees the world. In The Giver, the author uses an

Changes influence many factors in life whether you are aware of them or not, one of the most deadly things you can do to yourself is consciously lose your mind in order to achieve goals. Many would argue that in Shakespeare's “Hamlet”, Hamlet does not get the justice and did not achieve the goal his father’s spirit bestowed upon him. If seen from a different view, Hamlet did achieved this due to the fact that he did not care for his well being. Hamlet's life interferes with the plan he creates to