Essays on Meaning of Life

Introduction Viktor Frankl’s, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” isn’t just about the Holocaust but about how his traumatic experiences and suffering led to his widely shared message about his philosophy; that there is meaning in everything, especially suffering. I believe Frank’s intent wasn’t just to talk…

The D word is a word that many people fear. It is a word that is avoided, and many people do not know how to respond to it. This D word is death. Death is a complicated subject to talk about and not many people…

Introduction A Man’s Search For Meaning is finding a purpose in life in a bad situation. We are all guilty of looking at how bad we have it, when there are other people suffering a lot worse than us. There is meaning life, you are…

The Main Value What might most people on this earth value? You guessed it right, it’s Life! Life brings a lot of meaning and purpose that is I feel is an ideal answer to the society and lets just face it, what could someone value…

I remember the first time I went to a funeral when I was a kid I was around 8 years old. Like, most 8-year-olds, I did not understand what death was until my parents told me. Since then I have always wonder what the meaning…

Once a relative, friend or loved one disappears from our lives, the only way to honor it is to remember it in the best possible way. Knowing that, even though he is not with us, he sees us from somewhere or is still around in…

Furthermore, does life imitate life and art imitate art? Many times over, artists have drawn inspiration from one another. Nemerov has done exactly this in his poem, “Vermeer”, which is based around the works of the artist Johannes Van der Meer, otherwise known as Jan…

Out of the books that we have been assigned to read for this class, I have hands down found The Problem of Pain, and more specifically, the “Heaven” chapter to be the most thought provoking. Throughout this chapter, Lewis examines the very nature and purpose…

What is life? This question can be debated for a long period. Life can be observed in different perspectives. It can be viewed in a philosophical point of view and scientific angle. Moreover, life can be argued in a literature perspective as argued by Frank…

In search of the meaning of life (War and Peace) Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” has become one of the most important works of world literature, affecting the moral problems and giving answers to such important historical and philosophical questions that relate to the…