The human condition is the totality of the experience of being human. It's the circumstances which a person is placed in, the environment of existence, and their character. Set in the grim, war-torn future of the 41st Millennium, the weakness of humans become especially apparent in the novel "First and Only" as composer Dan Abnett uses a variety of literary techniques such as imagery and characterisation to emphasise the vulnerability of humans, both individuals and …showed first 75 words of 1393 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1393 total…of J. Alfred Prufrock", or the psychological vulnerability to loss and fear exhibited in the film "Shine." All of the three texts depict humans in varying conditions, vulnerable, prone, susceptible to the environment and the people around themselves, at risk and at danger of being injured physically or mentally at any moment, any time. It is the human vulnerability of those characters that are shown in the texts, and portrayed of being their human condition.