In Albert Camus’ Nobel Prize winning piece of work‚ The Stranger‚ he presents to his readers one of the most confusing and “strangest” character in the history of literature‚ Meursault. Meursault lives in a town called Algiers‚ and there‚ he gets himself into an unavoidable series of events that will lead up to his unfortunate end. Albert Camus does a wonderful job of weaving hints and traces of significant symbols and references to other famous works of literature to build the atmosphere and the
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Dogmatic Systems Camus ’s The Stranger‚ illustrates the absurdity of human existence. Through Meursault ’s bereavement‚ Camus emphasizes his philosophy that individual human life has no rational order or structure. Also‚ as life is connected through the certainty of death‚ it inevitably faces the same meaningless end. Camus ridicules the inanity of dogmatic systems as an attempt to establish meaning in an otherwise trivial existence. In Camus ’s The Stranger‚ Meursault ’s indifferent behavior
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Meursault as “The Stranger” The way a person reacts to ordinary situations determines the opinions of others based on their behavior. Yet‚ when this behavior is abnormal or different from the rest of society‚ it causes society to form an opinion based totally on a person’s behavior not their true personality. In Meursault’s case‚ his strange opinions and unexpected remarks put him in this position‚ without ever really giving him an opportunity to be truly understood. However‚ Meursault cannot change
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The Stranger by Albert Camus is one of his best works. This novel tells the story of a man‚ Meursault‚ who is a moralist. Nothing seems to matter to him and his or anybody else’s actions makes no difference. Camus’s use of language allows readers to discover the mood and meaning being conveyed through diction and word choice. His use of figurative language can be seen throughout. Such an example of figurative language is imagery. From reading The Stranger‚ one can clearly picture whats happening
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“Punishment” “Punishment‚” a poem written by Irish author Seamus Heaney‚ speaks of the discovery of the body of a young bog girl‚ who as realized later in the poem‚ was punished for being an “adulteress.” (23) On closer inspection and as the poem shifts from past to present the faith of the bog girl is compared with the faith of another woman in more recent violent times‚ namely The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In this poem Heaney thus comments‚ through the use of literary devices such as enjambment
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The Great Gatsby cover Commentary The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a detailed account of a summer that Nick Carraway‚ the narrator spent in West Egg‚ long island‚ living in a house next to a colossal mansion owned by a man named Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby was known to throw many “little parties” which were anything but “little”. The story includes many influential characters such as Daisy Buchanan‚ who is Nick Carraways cousin‚ Tom Buchanan‚ who is Daisy’s husband‚ Jordan Baker‚ Daisy’s
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circumstances‚ but their circumstances condition their choices and propel them toward their destiny’.[1] Middleton‚ as other Jacobean playwrights before him‚ has managed to point out that ‘aristocratic life is brutal and corrupt’.[2] The focus of this commentary will be concentrated on marriage and to what can lead one to fall apart. The first scene (Act I)‚ deals with the characters of the play’s main plot: Leantio‚ Bianca and the Mother. In this scene‚ the readers come across with the insulting
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Reflective Commentary on Working With Actors By Andrey Levchenko One of my favorite courses for today is “Working with actors”. We learned a lot on these sessions. I am not a really talkative person and I prefer to listen‚ either than to talk. Also I am really shy with a new people and do not really like to talk to them in the beginning of our friendship. That is why it was difficult for me in the beginning to contact with actors‚ but with time a got used to it‚ and now I know how to do it easily
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individuals. In The Stranger by Albert Camus‚ Meursault was used to show the consequences of killing and how Meursault was not the only one affect by his actions. Meursault’s actions not only landed him in jail but caused his girlfriend‚ Marie‚ to suffer. Søren Kierkegaard used the story of Abraham and Isaac in Fear and Trembling to show how Abraham’s decision could affect his son and wife. These two philosophers use their works to highlight the fact that every action
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future‚ man has lost most technological skill‚ resulting in a dehumanized world. Even today there is a huge rift between the upper class and the working class. Firstly‚ the Time-Traveler believed that the Eloi were the “Haves pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty‚” while the Morlocks were the “Have-Nots‚ the workers” (76). This first theory of the Time-Traveler’s is that humanity was split along social lines and the Eloi ruled over the Morlocks‚ but this is proved false by the Eloi being “so terribly
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