Philosophical Fragments Literary Elements

Philosophical Fragments Literary Elements

Genre

Philosophical book

Setting and Context

The book is written in the context of the theories of truth.

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Optimistic, upbeat, moving, enlightening

Protagonist and Antagonist

Soren Kierkegaard is the protagonist and narrator of the book.

Major Conflict

The major conflict is the intrinsic absurdity in the scenery of thought because an individual cannot learn what he does not know.

Climax

The climax is repentance, in which the individual talks with God in secrecy to ask for forgiveness. After that, the person repenting is empowered by God to transform from a learner to a teacher.

Foreshadowing

Sin foreshadows the distancing of human beings from God, who is the true teacher.

Understatement

Religion is understated because the assumption is that people worship only to get God’s forgiveness. In the broader sense, religion is the groundwork of knowledge.

Allusions

The story alludes to the relationship between man and God.

Imagery

The imagery of God is evident throughout the book. The author paints God as a teacher, a Supreme Being who can forgive and empower humanity. Despite God being invisible, the author uses imagery to make Him visible to readers.

Paradox

The main paradox is that a man cannot seek to know what he already doesn’t know. Therefore, this philosophical thinking makes learning a useless process.

Parallelism

The parallelism is that God, who is the teacher, can also transform his believers into teachers.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The term 'corruption is used to refer to willful unawareness of truth.

Personification

N/A

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