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    viewed as irrational and absurd. The French literature novel‚ The Outside‚ written by Albert Camus focuses on the judicious meaning of human existence and the lives of individuals. In 1957‚ Camus was awarded with the Nobel Prize in literature “for his important literary production‚ which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.” (Novel Prize Literature) The Outsider concentrates on the rational meaning of human existence and the lives of individuals

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    pieces of literature. In Albert Camus’s novel The Outsider‚ there are a variety of social groups that are portrayed in a negative light‚ but the most prominent is the female population. Throughout the book‚ many women are disregarded‚ or are seen as unimportant. From Marie to Meursault’s mother to Raymonds mistress‚ each woman is portrayed as destitute and desperate for love. Thus‚ Camus uses the character of Meursault to present women as shallow and naive to the audience. Camus portraying women this

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    Albert Camus’ The Outsider from an Ecocritical Point of View Vikram Jyoti Das EGE10026 Meursault- the protagonist of Camus’ The Outsider is shown as being influenced by nature. His character and actions are indicative of how an individual is affected by the environment in which he dwells and how a change in the surroundings affects his psychology. The character of Meursault also portrays the biological evolutionary notion of adaptability and how a superior species

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    J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye - Albert Camus: The Stranger /comparison/ Albert Camus’ The Stranger and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye are both among the most important and innovative novels of the twentieth century‚ however it is not the only similarity shared in common by these two masterpieces. The modern world’s general moral change and the individual’s alienation from the society serve as the main‚ basic topic for both novels. The most visible and outright similarity lies

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    Existentialism arose during the bleak years of the Second World War to provide meaning in a Godless universe. Albert Camus illustrates this connotation of existentialism in his novel The Outsider. Camus focuses around the main character Meursault‚ who is on a journey of becoming a true existentialist. Meursault’s actions eventually lead him to an unnecessary court trial for his lack of emotion as opposed to the actual murder he committed. Through his futile imprisonment he accepts the consequences

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    Albert Camus (French: [albɛʁ kamy] ( listen); 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning author‚ journalist‚ and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay "The Rebel" that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual and sexual freedom. Although often cited as a proponent of existentialism‚ the philosophy with which Camus was associated during

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    Albert Camus (1913­1960) and Absurdism  .  “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem‚ and that is suicide. Judging whether life is  or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.”1[1] The  statement reveals one of the dilemmas of the philosophy of Absurd [also called as Absurdism]  which Camus sought to answer. The Algerian­born French thinker Albert Camus was one of the  leading thinkers of Absurdism. He was actually a writer and novelist with a strong philosophical 

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    Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd How does Camus define the absurd condition? What three options does man have when confronted with the absurd? In Camus’s perspective‚ why are the first two not defensible options? According to Camus’s philosophy‚ how--or in what--does one find happiness? Camus "draw[s] from the absurd three consequences"; what are these three consequences? How does he define each of these three? Explain Camus and the philosophy of the absurd’s perspective on any

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    town you are from‚ or even the country that you were born in. Overall‚ a home is a place where you should feel accepted. French author‚ Albert Camus was born in Algeria and could not feel anymore left out from the society of which he lived in. Albert Camus wrote a book called‚ The Stranger‚ which takes place during the early 1940’s in Algeria. Although Albert was born in El Taref‚ Algeria‚ he was of French descent. Ever since 1848‚ Algeria was not only considered to be owned by the French‚ but also

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    Humanities IV 5/5/14 Life Albert Camus once said that “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life” (Camus). Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize and whose views contributed to the rise of absurdism. What Camus is saying is that life has plenty of value and to live in the moment with the things that make us happy even if they are absurd. In The Plague Camus shows us the absurdity of life‚ the struggle

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