Existential Crisis in Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins

Abstract

Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins dramatizes the existential crisis of the protagonist Thomas More living in the modern world. The protagonist of Love in The Ruins undergoes existential crisis, for he fails to choose an appropriate aim in his life. As every other individual, he realizes his freedom of choice. However fails to find the meaning of it. This failure leads him to perceive the world as meaningless entity. As a result he lives an alienated and absurd life with no more willingness. His strong desire of making individual choice and his own existence is failed, and he suffers from being thrown in this world. The struggle of making one's own existence is failed in the modern world. There is no other person to share this failure, neither he sees God to blame for this.