Appraising Contemporary Existentialism in John Bunyan’s : the Pilgrim’s Progress and Danny Boyle’s The Beach

Abstract

This research work carries out a fundamental appraisal of the Existentialist philosophy in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and Danny Boyle’s The Beach. In this process, this dissertation treats John Bunyan as Existentialism’s theist precursor, who experimented with Existentialist philosophy long before it was fully developed in the twentieth century. This explicit contextualization of Bunyan within Existentialism will be achieved through a comparative study with the film-philosophy of Danny Boyle’s The Beach, as the latter examines and explores also the inner depths of human existence. A thorough study of the corpora is made to achieve a philosophical Existentialist nexus. It shows that their view is quite similar to the Existentialist view held by eminent modern philosophers