The Stranger Essay If people were to accept that absurdism exists then that would mean that life is irrational and has no arrangements of any sort. This would mean that everything mankind has done so far to progress itself through society and religion means absolutely nothing because both are used to control chaos from happening in the first place. Consequently‚ if a person is known to be an absurdist‚ people would generally think that means someone who lives a life without any meaning. However
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Existentialism: Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett‚ father of the American hard-boiled genre‚ is widely known for producing a suffocating world of realism in his works (“Hard-boiled fiction”). According to Paul Abraham’s “On re-reading The Maltese Falcon‚” the realistic atmosphere of Hammett’s third novel is reactionary to the post-war turmoil in which the work was born (97). This provides the ideal foundation for subtle philosophical concepts of existentialism such as‚ quests
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Existentialism : Here & Now Existentialism aimed to explore and encourage personal sensory detail via the thought processes of human beings. “Existentialism stressed the special character of personal‚ subjective experience and it insisted on the freedom and the autonomy of the individual” (Wolf). The philosophy of existentialism‚ and one of its greatest philosophers Jean Paul Sartre‚ were the motivation and inspiration to the arts and humanities during the 1940’s and 1950’s. First allow me to
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John Rawl said‚ “the principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.” Justice policies or principles‚ is a very important concept that is embedded within our society. There are different rules and regulations among different cultures as well as it being practiced and experienced differently‚ but for the most part‚ there is a lot of similarities universally. The goal in the end‚ or what it seems like‚ is to try to be successful‚ and try to be “just” while doing so. In the readings we
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The Stranger The book that I read was called The Stranger written by Albert Camus. The book is globally famous and was translated to many different languages and texts. The original was called L’Étranger which was written in French in 1942. The plot of this story involved a man in his late twenties or early thirties. The man’s name is Meursault. In the beginning of the novel‚ Meursault is notified that his mother had passed away in the nursing home that he occupied her to. Meursault’s income
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The source and nature of one’s identity is a theme of both A long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and “ Stranger in the Village” by James Baldwin. Conflict can be external or internal creating depth in a character and making a very complex journey. Everyone has an identity made and changed by what they have been through and what they have experienced. Baldwin bravely talks about his journey in the small swiss village in a Europe as villagers are shocked to see him: a black man. They observe him like an
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In Albert Camus’ novel‚ The Stranger‚ Meursault represents an existentialist character. Most may believe him to be immoral‚ and in some cases they are almost correct. Contrary to that belief‚ just because Meursault is an emotionless silhouette of a man doesn’t mean he is immoral or evil. One cannot condemn him for being this way because he is simply misunderstood. Meursault does not make moral or immoral decisions‚ he is just completely indifferent to the matter. Readers are able to sympathize with
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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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When you are having a conversation with someone what do you do? Do you listen to them or do you take notes on the dark purple flowers planted in the background? Attention to detail is a main theme in The Stranger. Camus uses this to display how Meursault choses to put off the real world and study the small things. Meursault notices the nature around him‚ colors‚ and temperature. You see he is more fascinated in the physicality of the world around him rather than the emotional and social elements
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of Immanuel Kant. Continental philosophy is usually countered with analytic philosophy or sometimes referred to as Anglo-American philosophy. During the 20th century continental philosophy embraced schools of thought such as phenomenology and existentialism. The major influences that this type of philosophy had were thinkers such as Martin Heidegger‚ Jean-Paul Sartre‚ Maurice Merleau-Ponty‚ Michael Foucault‚ and Jacques Derrida. (Continental philosophy‚ Britannica) Structuralism is defined as a
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