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The Cold War era marked a major shift in public consciousness from a historically outward and directed state of being toward a contemporary way of thinking, encompassing ideals such as self-enlightenment as well as awareness of self and influencing factors on agency. This set of ideals is encapsulated and taken to the far left with existentialism, taking a step further back from one's self to identify deeper philosophical issues from the point of view of your own being as well as civilisation as a whole. This occurrence falls in line with the growing anxiety being pandered in synchronization with the development of the atomic age, fuelling the despair and lack of sense of purpose which became synonymous with modern existentialism. Both these …show more content…
Tiernan’s representation, while less forward, is able to once again illustrate the links between anxiety, policy and personal, and perspective by displaying the ramifications of each through his presentation of characters. Through the dialogue presented by Tiernan, he is able to present the same diversity in perspective as Beckett in regards to ranking in a military sense, something with heightened meaning contextually in the Cold War. “We’re going to kill a friend. We’re going to kill Ramius” explores the nature of such perspective dynamics, using anaphora to make clear the difference in position and thus power, accentuated by a close up shot of a well-respected man, to make clear the importance of the quote. This forces the characters to place aside personal agency and instead be wholly under the agency of the government. This perspective difference represents the anxiety evident at a personal level throughout the Cold War, and uses the text’s contextual setting to heighten the sense of meaning. This represents the paradigms that are subverted in order to portray the anxiety in Tiernan’s

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