Presentation: Human as Individual
Human as individual Soul of Man Under Socialism / Oscar Wilde The individual is at the center Socialism/ communism/anarchy will make the individual able to fulfill their potential as an artist Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf The individual is at the center The ultimate goal of literature is to get at the soul of the character Freud Analyzing the individual endlessly The smallest nuances in a person’s story and dream become the subject of exhaustive theses A Noiseless Patient Spider
/ Walt Whitman, 1868
A noiseless patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, Till the bridge you will need be form'd, ti...