Themes‚ Motifs & Symbols Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Irrationality of the Universe Though The Stranger is a work of fiction‚ it contains a strong resonance of Camus’s philosophical notion of absurdity. In his essays‚ Camus asserts that individual lives and human existence in general have no rational meaning or order. However‚ because people have difficulty accepting this notion‚ they constantly attempt to identify or create
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The Emperor’s Club Q1. Do you think Professor William Hundert did the right thing? What are the ethical and moral dilemmas would he have experienced? Did his choice help or hinder Sedgewick? A. I believe Professor William Hundert did not do the right thing. Selecting Sedgewick Bell over Martin Blythe‚ not on the bases of merit‚ was not only unfair to Blythe but can also be perceived as favouritism. It is true that he wished to see Sedgewick Bell succeed and wished to motivate him to work harder
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Many books have been written by many authors that deal with a struggle between society and individual. Albert Camus’ The Stranger (L’étranger) deals with this same topic‚ but it can be analyzed from a unique and very interesting point of view. The way of life of people can be analyzed by classifying them into two main forces that oppose each other. These forces were named after the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus. Theses terms were first used by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The main
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A picture is worth a thousand words‚ but is it really? A picture to me is not a thousand words‚ but a thousand ideas. The idea of a picture itself is so simple‚ yet so remarkable in the way that we can look a picture and instantly relive a previous memory or experience. Pictures are almost a way to freeze time and reflect on who we were then and who we are now. This photograph is not much of an experience‚ but a reflection on my life as a child itself. I had no idea back then that I would be who
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The Breakfast Club is very different from almost every other entry into what was (at the time) a burgeoning genre. Instead of relying on the staples of bare flesh‚ crass humor‚ and brainless plots‚ this movie focuses on five dissimilar characters‚ is almost entirely dialogue-driven‚ and doesn’t offer even a glimpse of a breast or buttock. It’s a story about communication gaps‚ teen isolation‚ and the angst that everyone (regardless of how self-assured they seem) experiences during the years that
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Fight ForYour Right By Tierney Hughes In the twentieth century‚ Martin Luther King Jr. (1929)1968) emerged from the lower class of society‚ and became one of the most influential civil rights leader in the United States. King promoted non-violent protests in the late fifties‚ to fight for equal rights for the African American culture. He wanted all races to get along‚ and he wanted equality for all. Certain laws prohibited equality among races from happening. Moral and immoral laws exist throughout
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The social media user - Simmel’s stranger today In 1908‚ Georg Simmel used the trader as a paradigm for his idea of ’The Stranger’ who is characterised by his mobility‚ objectivity and position between belonging and exclusion. Today’s social media user‚ I will argue‚ can be seen as a contemporary‚ mediated form of Simmel’s stranger. I will begin with an analysis of Georg Simmel’s essay ’The Stranger’ before showing how the essence of this idea is embodied in the social media user of today and why
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Breakfast club reflective essay The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in Shermer‚ Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24‚ 1984. While not complete strangers‚ the five teenagers are each from a different clique or social group. The five students - Allison‚ Andrew‚ Bender‚ Brian‚ and Claire - who seem to have nothing in common at first‚ come together at the high school library‚ where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats
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film “The Breakfast Club” is a classic American coming-of-age-drama-comedy film. “The Breakfast Club” is written‚ produced‚ and directed by John Hughes‚ who was met with “resistance and skepticism” because he lacked filmmaking experience when he requested to direct this film. This film turned out to be Hughes’ directional debut. With a budget of one million dollars‚ this film grossed 51.5 million dollars worldwide. In just 97 minutes‚ we learn differences between “five strangers with nothing in common
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Jared Potts Ms. Reeves Film/Capstone 4 November 2012 Mise-en-Scene: The Strangers The Strangers (Bertino) is a 2008 horror/thriller film‚ directed by Bryan Bertino‚ and starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. Based on true events‚ The Strangers‚ tells of a young couple‚ Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman)‚ who stay in the Hoyts’ rural summer home after attending a wedding. Throughout the night‚ three people in masks (Kip Weeks‚ Gemma Ward‚ and Laura Margolis)‚ one man and
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