Ennui

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The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-"Is this all?"

Betty Friedan

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Topic

Middle class life Feminism Ennui

Author

Betty Friedan

Source

The Feminine Mystique

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. W. W. Norton & Company, 1963, ch. 1.

I just don't know what I'm supposed to be. You know?

Lost in Translation

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Topic

Purpose of life Aimlessness Ennui

Speaker

Charlotte

Actor

Scarlett Johansson

Source

Lost in Translation

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Comedy drama (film) Romantic comedy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Lost in Translation. Directed by Sofia Coppola, American Zoetrope/Elemental Films, 2003.

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothing to do, nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated.

Ramones

I Wanna Be Sedated

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Topic

Ennui

Speaker

Ramones

Source

I Wanna Be Sedated Road to Ruin

Medium

Song

Genre

Punk rock Rock music

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Ramone, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone and Johnny Ramone. "I Wanna Be Sedated." Performed by Ramones. Road to Ruin. Sire Records, 1978.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Samuel Beckett

Murphy

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Topic

Same old same old Ennui Malaise The sun

Author

Samuel Beckett

Source

Murphy

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Beckett, Samuel. Murphy. Routledge, 1938, ch. 1.

But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

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Topic

Ennui Middle class conformity

Speaker

Paul Riesling

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Babbitt

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 5.