Essays on Bad Faith

Jean-Paul Sartre once said “I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, all the time, even when I think I have no choice to make.” His play, No Exit, was written to critique...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, like the other allegorical poems ascribed to the Gawain poet, may be read as an allegorical tale of sin and redemption in Christian terms. That the poem has strong Christian underpinnings is beyond doubt, especially in view of the...

Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith both censured how British social orders functioned and how they treat poor people. Quick, be that as it may, condemned the absence of empathy with unforgiving, gnawing parody. For instance, the storyteller of “A Modest Proposal” recommends that the starving...

Mauvaise foi or bad faith is a philosophical concept popularized by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre to describe the propensity for human beings to oppose absurdism in order to justify the circumstances in which they live. As an existentialist, Sartre believed that existence is a function of...