Man's Search For Meaning Analysis

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What is my Why? Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl explores what happens to the human mind when placed in the cruel conditions of a concentration camp. In his book, Frankl explains that the prisoners who lost hope and meaning quickly withered and died. He quotes Friedrich Nietzsche when he says, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how” (Frankl 97). As an example, Elie Wiesel survived living in a concentration camp because he had a ‘why’. Through Wiesel’s story, it is evident that his father was one of the only reasons he survived. Wiesel needed to take care of his father and help him survive. His father gave him a purpose. Today it is still just as necessary to have a why or a purpose to live. Every person must have something

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