Abstract
Pursuit of essence is the topic and it is a comparative study of the existential elements in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers. To look out the meanings of the nature is something about the pursuit of essence. Meaning from nature means to know about the nature and to know about the facts and figures of the nature by man’s own effort and for himself. Comparison is of existential elements in both pieces of literature. The study examines the Existential elements in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers. This study is comparative and of Qualitative in nature. Different schools of Existentialism like Christian Existentialism are also part and parcel of research. Primary Data was collected from the text. The analysis of data showed that existential elements were rife in both of the pieces of Literature.
Highlights
Existentialism is concerned with the aspects of human existence and their struggles
Jean Paul Sartre is the major figure and Kierkegaard is known as the father of existentialism other than, James Joyce, Ezra pound and Samuel Becket, who are the big names in the field of modernism and whenever modernism is talked about, existentialism should be automatically considered as a part of study
The material is initially taken from the text of the novel Maps for Lost Lovers secondary sources will be utilized in form of Critical books, journals, online essays and online articles as well
Summary
Existentialism is concerned with the aspects of human existence and their struggles. It is a philosophy that emphasizes individual existence. Different but very simple questions are asked in it like “why I am? Why I exist?” Existentialism is that is something where an individual is free to think and to make its decisions by himself but one should remember that such decisions are taken for immediate purposes so the individual is responsible for his the actions and reactions. In existentialism individual tries to make rational decisions despite existing in an irrational universe. Different theorists have used this theory in their work to have the taste of existentialism. There are some key factors which are to be explored with reference to the concept of Existentialism:
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