
Like the child, they can exercise their freedom, but only within this universe which has been set up before them, without them. Simone De Beauvoir writes, “There are beings whose life slips by in an infantile world because, having been kept in a state of servitude and ignorance, they have no means of breaking the ceiling which is stretched over their heads. The agent has a conviction about the effectiveness of Marxist policies hence, campaigns for them at will. Marx does not coerce agents to believe in his principles. By acting, as also by preaching action, the Marxist revolutionary asserts himself as a veritable agent he assumes himself to be free." The revolutionary embraces the Marxist ideology and circulates it out of free will. The very notion of action would lose all meaning if history were a mechanical unrolling in which man appears only as a passive conductor of outside forces. Simone De Beauvoir expounds, "in practice, Marxism does not always deny freedom. Accordingly, cannot fill the void of "nothingness." Freedom

Passion may not effectual in transforming man’s nature and his weaknesses. It is only in the last pages that he opens up the perspective for an ethics.” Passion is meaningless in a human’s life. And it is also true that in Being and Nothingness Sartre has insisted above all on the abortive aspect of the human adventure. Simone De Beauvoir elucidates, “Man’s passion is useless he has no means for becoming the being that he is not. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.

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