THE STRANGER AND METAMORPHOSIS: A COMPARISON By WEI YUDAN School of Government‚ 1000016939 [Abstract] Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis and Camus’ The Stranger both lie an essential absurdity‚ and they both feature situations out of which come to light existentialist values. While The Metamorphosis highlights that one must interact with society in order to have a meaning in life. As for the differences‚ each novel has its individual narrative point of view and typical writing style. [Key Words] The
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Throughout the centuries‚ America has evolved day after day and will keep evolving until America no longer needs to evolve. But until then one thing America has faced through all those years and even today in modern day America is Alienation. Alienation‚ not those bizarre creatures that live in outer space‚ but those people from foreign countries who are treated as outcasts. This issue started even before the settlements of the thirteen colonies. This is American history and no one can change‚ but
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Technology: Alienation and Invasion Technology is the knowledge‚ modification and usage of tools‚ techniques and systems to perform a specific function. Humans started using it since the prehistoric times‚ from the discovery and learning the ability to control fire and converting raw materials into simple tools. People explored and discovered it further until it came to its modern usage. From the first communicative carvings to globe-spinning communication networks‚ human attempted to use
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Part I 1. In Thomas Nagel’s “The Absurd” (1971)‚ he begins by addressing the standard arguments for declaring life to be absurd. The first argument he points out is the idea that nothing humans doing in the present will matter in the distant future‚ or as Nagel says‚ “in a million years” (Nagel 716). People believe that what they do now won’t matter at all in a million years‚ and that they are just one person living in the now that will soon be gone and will therefore not matter and don’t matter
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How did 20th century views on alienation play a part in the story’s plot? In today’s context‚ alienation refers to a large variety of mental health disorders such as anxiety‚ despair‚ rootlessness‚ apathy‚ anomie‚ loss of self‚ isolation‚ powerlessness‚ pessimism‚ loss of self and belief or values. However‚ this is very different from the 20th century view on things. Historically speaking‚ primative life was much more simple. The members of early society were connected to each other by the simple
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The story of the “Sandpiper” has many similarities to the story’s “The Rain Horse” and “Her First Ball”. One of the similarities in those 3 stories is alienation. The woman in the “Sandpiper” is treated as an outsider by her husband‚ his family and his country. The man in “The Rain Horse” was treated like an outsider by the land and the land did not welcome him as well as looked down on him. In “Her First Ball”‚ Leila was treated like an outsider by the girls and the men at the ball. The theme of
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contact with. The reason that the monster is so abhorred is because of its hideous appearance. Although the monster has amiable intentions‚ the people around him immediately assume that he is completely evil. The monster is rejected by complete strangers‚ by people he loves‚ and even by his own creator. The importance that society places upon a person’s appearance is evidenced by the way that Frankenstein’s monster is judged based on his monstrous façade. The monster’s appearance causes anyone
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Alienation is defined as the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. In the novels The Catcher in the Rye and 1984 alienation is a main theme. Catcher in the Rye and 1984 show characters who are not normal and who are different from the rest of society which results in their Alienation. Alienation is a feeling of not belonging. One of the biggest factors that cause alienation is the need to fit in and be accepted
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some point in their lives‚ everyone faces an existential crisis and questions‚ very philosophically of course‚ their roots and achievements and reasons for being. For some‚ this point is not reached until middle age‚ at which point they realize that their lives have been for naught and that the countless goals that they had set for themselves in their youth must be achieved immediately. For others‚ like myself‚ every other day contains an existential crisis of sorts. It’s easy to get sucked into
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