A Man's Search For Mean By Victor Frankl

The human condition, the ongoing balance between good and evil inside people and their environment. Overall, the human condition becomes a balance and struggle between the three areas affect personal, emotional, spiritual and mental growth. Similarly, humans demonstrate an imperfect balance of aggression, selfishness, and lust mixed with compassion, love, trust, and hope. Humans encompass an equilibrium of an imperfect good and evil. Similarly, No one’s inherently good nor inherently evil, instead attitude, purpose, and thought often determine whether people respond negatively or positively to both celebrations, or tragedies. Therefore, The Human Condition balances both good and evil, while good and evil both exist on their own. Moreover,

These conflicts that people face often require examining others both directly and indirectly. Literature often provides the reader a glimpse of these hardships and pains, by causing the reader to contemplate their reaction via asking themselves “what if”. A major theme of the human condition, growth, maturing has become a vast piece of literature today. Literature often shows the readers various forms and levels of the human condition, growth, known as majoring, has become one of the major themes. Victor Frankl, a survivor of the Holocaust, wrote about growth in his book, A Man’s Search For Meaning, which utilized his pain to illustrate the amount of courage, faith, and love he still had for humanity. Frankl realized that the majority of readers will never experience the horrors of the Holocaust, but knowing that everyone experiences tragedies used a man named Jerry Long as an inspiration. Jerry Long, who during his life faced various hardships, one of which led to Long’s paralyzation, demonstrated the strength of a human’s courage to face the unknown. Long showed the reader that attitudes often lead to how a situation or circumstance would affect how anyone deals with hardships. He explained that “I believe that the handicap will only enhance my ability to help others. I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible”(Man’s Search for Meaning). Frankl unitized Long’s experiences to illustrate and convey that no matter that one goes through, one can achieve their full potential through faith, and courage. Notably, this ability to continually grow and adapt illustrates humanity’s amazing potential for beauty and resilience. In correlation to Frankl’s revelation, Nearly forty years later(In 2008) philosophy professor Cornel West concurs when discussing the raw