Existentialism is a concept that is often explored in works of literature as a way of displaying a character’s interaction with society. Existentialism is defined as: "an introspective humanism or theory of man that holds that human existence is not exhaustively describable or understandable in either scientific or idealistic terms and relies upon a phenomeno-logical approach that emphasizes the analysis of critical borderline situations in a man’s life and especially of such intensely subjective phenomena as anxiety, suffering, a ....