Meursault Argument Essay
Your true self
Existence precedes and commands Essence. (Jean Paul Sartre) We regarded any situation as raw material for our joint efforts and not as a factor conditioning them: we imagined ourselves to be wholly independent agents. ... We had no external limitations, no overriding authority, no imposed pattern of existence, we created our own links with the world, and freedom was the very essence of our existence. (Simone de Beauvoir, 1963). Many people believe that freedom is something that you are given when you are born, and that you can do whatever you want. Most don’t relies that the people around them can affect the things they do. They chose not to believe it. Some think that if they are not in with the in crowd then they are inferior to society so they act deferent and that …show more content…
Knowing that his freedom was no longer control by him and that it would soon come to an end. He could help to want to be free and want to live. It is a natural desire to want to live. He knows what he did and how that one action is shaping his live for the good and bad. “What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was” (109). He is reaching existential freedom because he will soon accept it all and find freedom in his state of mind instead of state of physically being. Meursault reaches existential freedom when he says, “As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again” (122).he untimely finds it because he accepts his faith to death and instead of think of the bad he find the good and that makes him
Existence precedes and commands Essence. (Jean Paul Sartre) We regarded any situation as raw material for our joint efforts and not as a factor conditioning them: we imagined ourselves to be wholly independent agents. ... We had no external limitations, no overriding authority, no imposed pattern of existence, we created our own links with the world, and freedom was the very essence of our existence. (Simone de Beauvoir, 1963). Many people believe that freedom is something that you are given when you are born, and that you can do whatever you want. Most don’t relies that the people around them can affect the things they do. They chose not to believe it. Some think that if they are not in with the in crowd then they are inferior to society so they act deferent and that …show more content…
Knowing that his freedom was no longer control by him and that it would soon come to an end. He could help to want to be free and want to live. It is a natural desire to want to live. He knows what he did and how that one action is shaping his live for the good and bad. “What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was” (109). He is reaching existential freedom because he will soon accept it all and find freedom in his state of mind instead of state of physically being. Meursault reaches existential freedom when he says, “As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again” (122).he untimely finds it because he accepts his faith to death and instead of think of the bad he find the good and that makes him