The following study delves into the portrayal of existential challenges and coping strategies in the fictional narrative of Karin Boye's novel Crisis, in response to existential themes being brought to light in the new Swedish curriculum set to be implemented in 2025. The primary aim was to achieve a deeper understanding of how existential challenges are depicted in literature, focusing on the main character Malin Forst, her existential challenges and her coping strategies. Two key research questions were addressed: “What existential challenges does the main character Malin Forst encounter?”, and “How does Malin cope with her existential challenges?”. Employing a hermeneutic approach, the novel was interpreted and analyzed through the lens of Irvin Yalom's categories for existential challenges and Kenneth I Pargament's religious coping theory. The findings reveal that Malin struggles with challenges related to freedom, existential loneliness, and meaninglessness. Furthermore, the results show that her coping strategies evolve from the coping style deferring, to collaborative and lastly self-directing – as well as from the method preservation, to reconstruction, followed by re-evaluation and finally re-creation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-532611 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Angelovski, Clara |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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