The Twain is Crossing:
Barbie's Existential Crisis Portrayed in Barbie 2023 Movie
Keywords:
Existential Crisis, Existentialism, Self-discoveryAbstract
The feelings of anxiety and anomalies experienced by the ‘Stereotypical Barbie’ in her perfect world called
Barbie-land, make her question her existence. This study focused on Simone de Beauvoir’s theory of
existentialism depicted in the women characters of Barbie 2023 movie directed by Greta Gerwig. The aim of this
study is to explore the existential crisis experienced by the women characters. Barbie’s journey on the real -world
finally discovers that her existential crisis arises from the anomalies that are affected by imperfect external
human experience when the “twain is crossing”. Barbie represents the principles of existentialist feminism as
defined by Simone de Beauvoir by confronting these existential concerns.
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