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    BOOK REVIEW | HASSAN NAWAZ LALEE NUST-201201264 | SECTION:A | STRANGER BY ALBERT CAMUS ABOUT THE BOOK: WRITTEN BY: ALBERT CAMUS TRANSLATED BY: STUART GILBERT PUBLISHED: IN 1942(FRENCH)‚ IN 1943(English) ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH TYPE: Philosophical

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    Albert Camus: The Guest 1. Existentialism: Sartre and Camus are the two most important French Existentialists. 2. Do not believe that there is any “essential nature” 3. Believe that our “nature” is constructed by the choices that we make 4. Absurdism: The belief that our desire for meaning is greater than the capacity of the universe to produce meaning. 5. There is no inherent meaning in the world 6. We warp the non-sense of the universe into a meaningful material reality

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    From the first few sentences of Albert Camus’ The Outsider‚ the protagonist‚ Meursault‚ is characterized as an amoral man. He is seemingly indifferent to the death of his own mother‚ despite the fact that societal principles would suggest he be deeply emotionally affected. His thoughts are instead centered upon the sun‚ which in return dictates his actions. In the novel‚ the sun is a representation of the societal weight which urges individuals to conform to norms. The presence of the sun indicates

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    emotions therefore making them no longer being present. This quote shows that Meursault believes that the evidence that was used against him in the trial were all due to others morals therefore his sentence depends on others beliefs.Through this text Camus communicate that the meaning and purpose of you life

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    The Stranger by Albert Camus‚ Meursault‚ the main character‚ seems uncaring of his mother’s death at the beginning of the book. But by the end he becomes caring of his execution day. As Meursault goes through his life‚ the more he starts to care about his life and the path he’s going down. During the first portion of the book Meursault comes across as someone who does not care about anyone or anything. On the very first page when he is talking about his mother’s death‚ Camus shows that Meursault

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    Existentialism is a type of philosophy that was very trendy in France after World War II as made popular by the quintessential philosopher‚ John Paul Sartre. A suitable introduction to existential ideology‚ The Stranger is a novel written by Albert Camus‚ a novelist and existentialist alike. Films that exhibit existential philosophy are the rotoscoped Waking Life by Richard Linklater and I Heart Huckabees by David O. Russell. The work that best conveys the ideas of existentialism is The Stranger due

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    Plague’s allegorical and metaphysical narrative. Like most human observations‚ we notice the the obvious first‚ before we pull and prod at the exterior to reveal something more ambiguous and at the same time‚ something rather apparent. In the novel‚ Camus‚ “[juxtaposes] […] the symbolical and the realistic‚” creating a polygonal register where the connotative qualities can be discovered when taking into consideration Camus’s style of narration and metaphorical language (Picon‚ 147). Camus’s novel consists

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    Expectations in A Chronicle of A Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez and The Stranger by Albert Camus Everyone has felt the pressure of societal expectations during their lifetime. The negative effects society brings on one’s life can lead to a feeling of rejection towards the people who do not conform to meet those standards. Gabriel García Márquez‚ author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold‚ and Albert Camus‚ author of The Stranger‚ both construct the external moral conflict of society versus the protagonist

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    MEURSAULT AS A NIHILIST IN ALBERT CAMUS ‘S THE STRANGER Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French novelist ‚ essayist ‚ dramatist‚ regarded as one of the finest philosophical writers of modern France. He earned a world –wide reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. Through his writings and I some measure against his will‚ he became the leading moral voice of his generation during the 1950’s. one of the greatest modern writers; he expresses the moral concerns

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    The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus? Why That’s Absurd! Before the mid-twentieth century‚ “tragedy” was a special word reserved‚ as Aristotle wrote‚ only for those in power. Modernist literature (spearheaded by Arthur Miller’s Tragedy and the Common Man)‚ however‚ muddied the waters — depicting many different types of people as tragic heroes. Among the first of these so-called commoner tragic heroes was Albert Camus’ Meursault. Like the classically tragic Sisyphus in ancient Greek mythology

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