Viktor E. Frankl---“Man's Search 4 Meaning“
While reading Viktor E. Frankls, “Man’s Search for Meaning”, I discovered many thesis’s. I’m only going to share the few that I thought really caught my eye. “(Of the inmates) it can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they bore their sufferings was genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom-which cannot be taken away--that makes life meaningful and purposeful” (Frankl, pg 87). “The prisoner who had lost faith in the future-his future--was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay” (Frankl, pg 95). “It was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them. This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love” (Frankl, pgs 100-101). I think that Frankl was trying to tell his reads, if you would give up in the concentration camps that there was no reason to even try to live. In Frankls words “Prisoners with a vision b
As he said, in order to live though these or other tough circumstances you have to find some meaningful in your life. The thing that makes life meaningful are cumulative not momentary it takes the whole lifetime of good and bad events to mold us into who we are and who we want to become. Each person must decide what attitude to adopt in any situation. Happiness is entirely in our power and therefore, once achieved, is absolutely inalienable. I think this was Frankls best example throughout the book, claim to be happy even when being tortured! Before I read the book, I thought it was going to be one of those boring books that I was not going to like and that I would never finish reading. Well this book was really surprised too me. I did not want to put it down at all. I never read anything about the concentration camps before so I really had no clue what to expect. I never new what happened in them. It was a really big shock to me that their are people out there that can do such a thing to innocent people that did not disserve anything that happen to them in this camps. I think Frankl did a wonderful job on telling us the horrors and torment of what went on with him and everyone else who was their. Some parts of the book was horrible cause of what they made this poor innocent people do. I just wanted to cry because no one was on their side. They went through so much hell just to be a survivor. If that was me I would of not even lasted a week and they were their for years. Frankl mentioned that every camp member lost their luxuries of a house and money, but all they wanted back was their freedom, family, or life with out pain or pleasure. He says that there is no equilibrium in life that gives us an easy way to live life. Instead there are constant sufferings that we have to triumph through to achieve our goal. There are many struggles tha
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