“Optimism” in Hannah Arendt’s “We Refugees” Optimism, according to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, refers to tendency to expect the best in all things, confidence in success, or belief that good will triumph over evil in the end. In Hannah Arendt’s article, this optimism describes refugees who think and speak cheerfully that “their whole former life had been passed in a kind of unconscious […]

The word “Optimism”, according to the definition from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus, is. In general, it has positive connotations being an admirable quality of people that brings positive effects to one’s mental state. It is used to describe the tendency and ability of people who are in hard situations to be hopeful […]

“Optimism” usually refers to In the text of the article “We Refugees” by Hannah Arendt, the word “optimism”   According to Hannah, the persecuted Jews—the group of people described in the article—desired to start a new life after moving to a new country, and as the process is hard, they have to be optimistic: they […]