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Christopher McCandless: Existentialist
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Christopher McCandless Vs. The World
The World
What makes Chris McCandless the quintessential existentialist?
Explain his traits, how does he show them in Into The Wild?
Grew up in a middle class, hard-working family- had some issues, grew up educated but rejected the modern world after that- didn’t take the new car, ran away after college
Donated money to hunger that should have been used on himself for further education- from father- always held to high expectations
Main focus was nature, experiencing life through the people he met, going to alaska
Forgetting his entire family and having no communication with them in order to make his life what he wanted- ubermensch
Christopher McCandless
- Self-governing,
- Freely choose own goals and purpose in life
- Replaced conformist ways of life with new self-creation,
- Wrote own script for life- what to live for
- From superficial living to organized, simple, purposeful living,
- Re-integrated himself around freely chosen values vs. values inherited from culture.
- Lived an authentic life based on free choices
The World
What character traits define Chris McCandless’s personality?
- Educated
- Hard Worker
- Friendly
- Spontaneous
- Adventurous
- Disconnected
- Unique
- Ubermensch
Christopher McCandless