A Sartrean analysis of Shipping News, Norwegian Wood and Blade Runner

Abstract

: As soon as they are submerged in this faraway place of beauty and solitude, Quoyle's emotional wounds begin to heal  but his demons still haunt him. The Shipping News is mainly about recovery: it's about having to confront your fears and face your past. It's about losing everything -- including hope -- and winning it all back.Quoyle thus emerges from being in itself in negating his past to being for itself in embracing his future as we will read with the later section on Blade Runner.Quoyle overcomes his damaged past as he negates it as an in itself to become being for itself to embrace his future with Wavey. Watanabe thus moves from being drowned in the past as an in itself to reinventing himself with Midori in the future as being for itself.The figure of Deckard is also seen to evince a growth from the in-itself to the for-itself.