The Ethics of Ambiguity Literary Elements

The Ethics of Ambiguity Literary Elements

Genre

Nonfiction

Setting and Context

Written in the context of the ideas that support existentialism

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Motivational, positive, hopeful and inspiring

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist of the story is Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

Major Conflict

The major conflict is that the author exposes the flaws of the traditional codes of conduct and breaks them down.

Climax

The climax comes with the revelation that personal choices and decisions cause human failure. According to the author, an individual has the power of making himself great or a failure.

Foreshadowing

An individual's true freedom is presaged by staying away from negative influence.

Understatement

Human understanding is understated because no single day an individual can fully comprehend everything in life.

Allusions

The story is an illusion of the complexity of ethics.

Imagery

The images of the men of today who are not in support of existentialism depict sight imagery which helps readers why people are still adherent to the traditional codes of conduct.

Paradox

The main irony is that human failure is linked to individual choices and decisions. The satire is evident throughout humanity because many people are failures, and they are the products of their choices.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

Failure is personified as a human choice.

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