The appreciation of the Woman in the Dunes by using Sartre ‘s Philosophy

本文主要讲述的是欣赏在沙丘里面的女人通过萨特的哲学升值的essay范文。文章主要从一男子的作为线索一步步引申进入，进一步突出文章所有描述的内容，同时也进一步得出坐着的观念，萨特的概念“存在先于本质”，它强调人的主观能动性解释人的行为，谁最终找到了他真正的自由。

The Woman is a novel written by Koubou Abe, filmed by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964 in Japan. The films narrates that a biology teacher of Middle school went out for biological specimens, but because of his addict to the observation of the beetles, he missed the bus back to Tokyo. With the guidance of the local residents, he found a lodging in a woman’s home, which was in a hole surrounded by wall of sand. He didn’t realize that he was cheated to become a labor who digged the sand out of the hole until the second morning. The relationship between the woman and the man kept changing, from distant, tense to close, co-operation and dependent on each other, the feeling the man also changes, from angry, depression to calm and willing. During which, the man took lots of ways to get away of the hole by using the scientific knowledge, tried to persuade the woman to get out of there, but it did not work to the women who were used to living here and accepted what it was. Accidently, the woman was pregnant and need the help of the outside hospital, which gave the man a chance to escape from the village, but he gave up and choose to stay in the village. At the same times, because of his missing for 7 years, he was claimed to missing in the newspaper and radios. 
In the following steps, appreciation of the film will be given in three aspects:
First of all, as we all know, Sartre is a strong supporter of the “existence precedes essence”, which means there does not have a plan for the existence and no creator who set the essence of human beings. We come the world accidently without plan, the essence is just consequence of series actions. Actually, we can experience the philosophy in the film, at the beginning of the film, when he was rest in the sand, he started his monologues” what is the meaning of all the documents, contacts, licenses, ID cards, registers, cheque, diplomas, membership cards and even the family tree?” he questioned the social value of those certificates and doubted the living in the big cities. Besides, when he was trapped in the sand hole, watching the woman digged the sand every day and did the same job day by day, he asked ” Do you live for digging sand or Do you dig sand for living?”. Those simple questions reflected the man’s thinking about existence. What the meaning of living? Just because he was trapped in the desert, in the civilized city, those different living situation triggered his doubts about the life, he was trying to figure out the essence of living. By using Sartre’s opinion which put emphasis on the value and dignity of the people, it explains why the man questioned about the meaning of life which reflected man’s subjective initiative. 
The questions about the essence of life lead to Sartre’s another opinion-freedom. In his view, we are absolutely free and are not bound to any other limits. We can freely decide what we want to develop and what we want to be and we are free of selections. In the movie, the man’s eager of freedom was showed relatively. He took lots of measures to escape from the “cage”, he did not want to be set down with a repeated job like the woman did. In order to see the sea and chase the freedom, he compromised to the villagers to have sex with the woman in front of them. He struggles, trying to escape like designed reasonable devices to support his escaping, even kidnaped the woman. However, finally, he had the chance to get out of the “cage”, he made a decision to stay here. To some extent, making decisions no matter what the consequence it would bring, it is a pursuit of freedom. The decision he made lead to the following Sartre’ concept-responsibilities. Because you make your decisions freely, no man interfere in the decision-making process, thus you should take responsibilities of the outcome your decisions, which is the third important suggestion of Sartre. He also expands the responsibility to humanism, because the decision you make is related to all the people, thus it’s your responsibilities to human beings. At the ending of the film, the man make his decisions which means he would take the responsibility of the following life including disappearing from the developed modern civilization and joining in a simple and traditional living. 
Thirdly, I would like to talk about the scene and the symbol of the film. The film is black and white and with extraordinary music. The first scene is an amplified grain of sand and then switched to a vast desert with a tiny man walking in the desert. It seems like the different side of desert, violent but beautiful, raging but gentle sometimes. The whole story will begin on the basis of the desert. The relationship between the man and the woman was described vividly by using the sand. The brutal wind of sand is according with the angry feeling man when he know he was trapped here, the beautiful of the sand is related to the tenderness between the man and the woman, especially the scene that when the man got up in the morning, he found out that the woman was naked with sand on her skin and the gentle sand when they made love. There are more details like the close up of the naked woman, the insects, the sand, the villagers, and the different situations with proper music, which all give us impressive impression. Moreover, the connection between the woman and the sand is close. To some extent, the sand is a symbol of the woman or the woman is a symbol of the sand. We can see clearly about the change of the men, from angry, depression to the compromise and dependent to the women, the man’s emotional fluctuation is apparent while the women is not. She seems a little numb and calm, digged the sand day by day silently with enduring and persistence but with tenderness and feminity. The film did not give us the exact background of the woman like when the woman came here, her family members, what is the stories of her past life but more specific stories of the man. All those characteristic is consistent with the features of the sand, vast, powerful and mysterious, like a mysteries strength which immerged, made the man stay and changed the man’s lifestyle. 
Finally, as far as I am concerned, Sartre’s concept of “existence precedes essence” which stress on man’s subjective initiative explains the man’s behavior, who finally find his authentic freedom. The film is a symbol of pursuit of freedom. At the beginning of the films, when the man lied on the sand thinking and questioning the live in the modern society, which is a hint of his final stay. When he was trapped, he fought for the seeming freedom. But with the mysterious strength of the man, who is tender, persevering, the strength submerged and called for his actual desire for freedom, which is a stable, traditional, simple life in the depth of his heart. He made the final decision to stay in the desert, is a manifest of his following for his true freedom and he was willing to take the responsibilities of the consequence. 
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