Nearly everything in life involves making a choice‚ either big or small. According to Albert Camus‚ an existentialist‚ life is considered absurd because the meaning of life has no answer‚ yet one continually searches for meaning while knowing death is inevitable. One is responsible and free to determine the meaning of life for oneself. People will continue to create a purpose for themselves and struggle to accept death. This is what makes life absurd and the act of searching for meaning pointless
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Richard Taylor states that before he addresses the purpose of life‚ he must first describe a meaningless life. A meaningless is best described through the life of Sisyphus. Sisyphus betrayed the gods by providing divine secrets to mortals‚ and as a consequence‚ he was giving a meaningless task of rolling a huge stone to the top of a hill. This task was meaningless because there was no significance behind this task. He would push a stone to the top just to have the stone fall back down and continue
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Meaning of Life Life is wonderful‚ but also hard. We struggle to find the meaning in our lives‚ but we can not accomplish it. There are many kinds of thoughts or philosophies of life; some think that life is already determined by God or destiny when they were born‚ while others think that they decide what they do by themselves. In "the stranger"‚ Albert Camus creates Meursault as a protagonist‚ who does not think about anything deeply. Because of that‚ he can not really enjoy his life. However‚
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Human beings are born everyday and when brought into this world‚ the only wish many parents have for them is to pursue their dreams and be themselves. This life can be absurd at times‚ but containing the absurdity and making life realistic is the ultimate goal. The world thrives off human existence as well as individuality. Human beings are taught to behave a certain way and are encouraged to stick to the status quo. By sticking to the status quo‚ they are to take on responsibility and accept what
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The Sympathetic Presentation of Meursault in The Stranger The Stranger is a novel to be felt rather than understood. Camus strings a complex web of emotions well beneath the reader’s consciousness: through the display of a seemingly simple series of events‚ the author is able to soak the reader with heavy feelings of uneasiness and estrangement. Because of this‚ the unsuspecting reader comes to have some sympathy for an otherwise unrelatable character‚ the “cold-blooded killer” Meursault. Through
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To conclude Maus II and the Maus series itself‚ readers are exposed to the rather emotional and long-awaited reunion of Vladek and Anja after the end of the Holocaust. After describing this‚ Vladek states‚ “More I don’t need to tell you” (Spiegelman 136)‚ and the narrative abruptly ends on this positive note. Specifically‚ this occurs because Vladek’s struggles and experiences during the Holocaust ended in the moment he was reunited with the woman he loved. For Vladek‚ this moment marked the end
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Bhavna Polapragada C 2014 Reflective Statement How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through your Interactive oral? While reading the novel‚ “The Stranger‚” by Albert Camus‚ at the beginning‚ i had trouble understanding Meursault’s character. I did not understand the way he was so detached- emotionally and physically from society. I couldn’t understand why he was so detached and disconnected at his mother’s funeral. In society‚ we
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Literature and philosophy are often intricately entangled with one another to influence a written piece of work. In the years following the Second World War‚ the works of European philosophers despite doctrinal differences‚ shared the belief that philosophy begins with the human being‚ also known as existentialism. Existentialism claimed a significant presence within the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Within the overarching existentialist movement there was a plethora
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In the second part of “The Stranger‚” Meursault is on trial for the assassination of an Arab man. Camus simply utilizes the trial as a metaphor for life to promote his notion of the absurd. Camus believes that the absurdity of our inherently meaningless life is our quest to find meaning or validity in a world where there is no absolute truth. Similar to our ambition to find meaning in our life‚ the trial attempts to search for Meursault’s motive to murder the seemingly innocent Arab. As the case
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In Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” the “story of an ordinary man who gets drawn into a senseless murder” is told. Taking place in Algeria this man‚ Meursault‚ is constantly in a climate of extreme warmth‚ as are all the inhabitants therein. The sun‚ the source of light and the cause of this warmth‚ is thus a vital and normal part of his life. It brings warmth and comfort yet it can also cause pain and sickness. Throughout most of his life Meursault has lived with the
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