Examples Of Existentialism In Stranger Things

Existentialism in Stranger Things Stranger Things is an eight-episode masterwork of television available only on Netflix. For its pleasures, in large part from the trait of disbelief. The plot revolves around a small group of children set in the 1980s trying to save a friend who may or may not have fallen into a terrifying and monstrous alternate dimension. Stranger Thing offers something more profound, and more profound, and more profoundly essential- a real meditation on faith and its meaning in modern, skeptical times. Stranger Things’ premise is about conflating the literal and the existential. On the surface, the question of belief presents itself, to the show’s viewers and characters alike, as a straightforward choice: Do you believe that Will Byers, a precocious middle-schooler who mysteriously disappeared one evening while riding his bike home, is dead and

They know their friend is out there, and they continue to pursue him even when the pursuit is dangerous and damaging, even as friends ridicule them, even as parents and teachers advocate muter, more reasonable courses of action. Their main challenge isn’t whether to go on believing, but how to do it, what manner of ritual-like conduct would bring them closest to a plane of consciousness they can’t quite grasp yet but intimately know exists side by side with their own. That has always been the believer’s challenge and reward: seeing one more layer to reality than the rest of us do. The show provides a hope that these children will find their friend and bring him back to their world alive. The viewer never gets to fully know what happens because the series ends in a mystery. The viewer never gets to fully know whether some of the characters will be free to live their lives or be placed back into solitude. Existentialism plays a very big role in Stranger Things. It makes one think of what it means to have free will and to be