downfall

The novel "e;The Fall"e; by John tells the story of a successful Parisian lawyer, who takes up the causes of the destitute, and who courtes the weak and marginalized. The lawyer recounts the manner and reasons for his fall from the highest social ranks to the lowest, as if recalling man's fall from the Garden of Eden. Through this fall, which constitutes the main theme of the novel. The lawyer tells the story of his success, that traditional success represented by what was formulated by society, people, authority, or any external influence that does not emanate from the individual himself. The problem with this idea is not in its exclusion of the individual as a group, but rather in its assumption of the existence of this collective standard resulting from the existence of an objective meaning for this life, and this is what existential philosophies agree to reject despite their differences with each other. Existentialisms agree that existence precedes meaning, and accordingly The essence of life is not something that requires searching for, but rather something that the individual creates for himself in order to live a non-absurd life.