Image: Still from ‘Charlotte’s Web’/Hanna-Barbera Productions.

The spider, Charlotte, dies alone, underscoring the importance of family and friends.

The Existential Sadness of “Charlotte’s Web.”

New York, N.Y. Recently I was reading with a young E.S.L. student E. B. White’s exceptional children’s tale, Charlotte’s Web. Charlotte is a kind, clever, and loyal spider who saves Wilbur the pig’s life. As this spider dies, alone and forgotten, I was filled with a sense of existential dread — sadness, loneliness — and I realized in that moment that this existential journey called life matters only in the reflection of friends and family.

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Video: The Deep, Existential Sadness of Charlotte’s Web (April 16, 2021) See also: YouTube.

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