Existential Rootlessness in The Foreigner: A Critical View

Unlike other novelists, he accepts the human dilemma theme in almost all his novels. The overall and outstanding quest in all his novels is for the specific direction and meaning of human life. Josh was influenced by an existential thinker like Colonation and Sartre which can be seen in his novel. Existentialism is a modern philosophical movement, including disillusionment and despair of "men" that started with the philosophy and literature of Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

Existentialism has been criticized at various angles. One criticism is that supposing that emphasizing individual freedom and absoluteism in existentialism is to moral morality and implies that daily life is "absurd" and evaluates our behavior and existence We insist on viewpoints of freedom "anytime anywhere" that exacerbates nihilism already existing in modern life. For example, the crowned novel "The Stranger" (1942b) was attacked to admire unethical "non provocative action".

After the study of Jean-Paul Sartre and other existential philosophers, many humanitarian psychologists adopted an existentialist view of the importance of existence and the meaning of life. Ludwig Binswanger, a Swiss psychiatrist and early leader of existential psychology, explained the various "models" that existed in the world. According to Binswanger, single mode is an individual, a lonely person who chose to live on their own. The mode for two people occurs when two people unite. Therefore, "You" and "I" will be "We". Multiple modes occur when individuals interact with other people. Finally, the anonymous pattern occurs when a person loses themselves in the crowd, or separates their emotions from others. America's existential psychologist Rollo May emphasizes that humans are experiences with people who experience experience. In May, people's awareness of their own mortality made vitality and passion possible.