European Studies Research Papers/Topics

Freedom and Choice in Human Relationships in Simone De Beauvoir’s Selected Novels

ABSTRACT Freedom and choice are among the most fundamental ethics in Existentialism that have generated extensive research in French literature. Past studies concentrated on the works of French existentialist writers in the areas of freedom and choice in politics, religion, education and the meaning of human existence with little attention paid to writers like Simone de Beauvoir who focuses on freedom in human sexuality. This study, therefore, examined sexuality in human relationships in sel...