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My Ism

            " the essence of individual existence and the deciding factor of one's morality.
             Freedom, its meaning is golden to an individual who came from a once communistic country. Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of your identity; the later one is sadly but true not accepted by the standards of society. And those who dare to tread the unsafe waters are sentenced to damnation.
             "Humans are essentially free"(Sartre). We have the right to choose our own decisions and be responsible for our life. Camus, for example, developed Meursault as a character who chooses to act indifferent without taking into consideration objective standards or universal sentiment. He borrowed Sartre's statement that the world does not five meaning to individuals. I, too, believe that just "being there" is not enough to exist. One must live life passionately, choosing one's own existence and committing oneself to a certain way of life. we may find ourselves confronting certain facts - poor health, advancing age, loss of a loved one - but it is always up to us what to make of these facts and how to respond to them. We may occupy a distinctive social role as a policeman or a waiter, but we are always something more; we always transcend such positions. In Woman at Point Zero, Firdaus is made up to be only a woman and a "successful prostitute" but deep within she consists of something more. The first step is her choice of being a prostitute out of her own free will. Because she is a woman she is shunned by all men, but she reacts to this confrontation in her own way; by becoming a prostitute. Choices and personal responsibility rather than overall rationality are what makes up the human self.
             Society, in which conformity and "being reasonable" are the rule, condemns free will. Even though it stresses freedom it tends to stray away from it when it witnesses a different manner from that of the society's.


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