Abstract
This research paper, in a close textual reading, investigates Jean Rhys‟ Good Morning, Midnight in light of Jean-Paul Sartre‟s The Nausea. Both novels in their respective ways attempt to explore the nature of existence before the catastrophic war. In both novels, an atmosphere of fear, loneliness, despair, anguish, viscosity and nothingness occupies the reader‟s imagination. Sasha, the central character of Good Morning, Midnight, is no Faustian character but she suffers patiently and endures on a grand scale. The social world denounces her in cold blood when she was heartlessly abandoned by her husband in Paris. She felt her womanhood shamelessly abused and her status as an individual denied her. She believes that suffering is the result of an unjust social and political system. Sasha seems to have gone beyond repair; she fails to find any satisfying means to resurrect herself from the damage done to her. Nevertheless, in the midst of large-scaled moral indifference and coldness of the world, her faith in humanity is reaffirmed. In The Nausea, Roquentin is not presented as a character caught up in the web of domesticity and traditional family relations. He belongs to the line of seekers who attempt to explore the enigma of existence. Roquentin sets before himself a self-appointed task of philosophizing over the nature of things and existence. His philosophical wanderings yield a vision of humanity in the end. He undertakes to write a novel to „make people ashamed of their existence‟.
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