Is Life Meaningful? The Stranger‚ written by Albert Camus‚ is a novel full of existentialism. This nonfiction story begins with the main character‚ Meursault‚ attending his mother’s funeral. As the story proceeds‚ Meursault befriends a man and becomes involved in something that will cost him his life. Camus portrays the meaninglessness of human life through the attitudes and lifestyle of Meursault. Camus uses a number of different elements of style to convey his message. Three elements of style
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IB SL English 2 Commentary on The Comfort of Strangers In one part of the novel‚ The Comfort of Strangers‚ the English writer Ian McEwan describes the admiration with which his male character‚ Robert‚ contemplates his sisters playing dress up. Though the speaker’s age is never divulged‚ we readily jump to the conclusion that he is around ten years old because of the childish and rudimentary language. The structure of the sentences is also very reflective of the child’s young age‚ as well as
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Georg Simmels’‚ The Stranger‚ gives us an in depth view of who strangers are and how they affect the community they are apart of. It combines the seemingly contradictory qualities of nearness and farness and how they connect to the broader social communities. The behavior of a normal or "inside" group within a society is standard‚ thus causing every other behavior that is different to this norm to be negative. The stranger is valued for his or her objectivity‚ for being able to take a distanced
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Talking to Strangers Online In recent years‚ the Internet has proved itself to be a niche of ever-growing clientele‚ offering its users a multitude of venues of entertainment‚ education and other beneficial uses; but other venues of mischief it provides as well. It has been a matter of public discord and a concern of parents and educationalists that millions of teen patrons are now ’online.’ A lot of them use the internet regularly‚ interacting with all sorts of content and technologies‚ and yet
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Albert Camus THE STRANGER THE Stranger By ALBERT CAMUS Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert VINTAGE BOOKS A Division of Random House NEW YORK 1 Albert Camus THE STRANGER VINTAGE BOOKS are published by Alfred A. Knopf‚ Inc. and Random House‚ Inc. Copyright 1942 by Librairie Gallimard as L’ÉTRANGER Copyright 1946 by ALFRED A. KNOPF‚ INC. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher‚ except by a reviewer who
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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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1) Summary of “I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” “I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” is an article written by Richard Wilson in 2008. The article is about a woman‚ Paula Wilson‚ who is considered to be Scotland’s first altruistic organ donor. Paula’s decision began when her mother suffered from kidney failure. Paula wanted to donate her kidney to her mother‚ to save her. Unfortunately Paula and her mother’s blood type wasn’t the same. Therefore Paula couldn’t donate her kidney to her mother
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Sisyphus" was the basis for future reference to what literary critics and the like would refer to as the "tragic hero". The tragic hero‚ as defined by Camus‚ is a character in a story‚ play‚ or novel that is forever doomed to an undesirable fate. In The Stranger‚ the story’s protagonist Monsieur Meursault would be defined as a "tragic hero". He is eventually doomed to a most horrible fate‚ he feels no hope for himself or his survival‚ and he accepts what he has to do with no question. As a result of the
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question. I believe that people aren’t truly evil‚ rather that their actions and behaviors are evil. You can be the holiest person on this planet‚ and still fall into sin. But‚ that does not make you a bad person. In chapter 4 of the first part of “The Stranger” page numbers 38 and 39‚ old Salamano lost his dog at the Parade Ground. He went to take his dog there‚ as always‚ and old Salamano stopped to watch “The King of Escape Artists.” and when he went to leave‚ the dog was gone. Meursault tried helping
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When Albert Camus wrote The Stranger in 1942‚ his intention was to present absurdism and existentialism to the world. The absurdity of life from Camus’s eyes come to life through the main character‚ Meursault. Throughout the novel‚ Meursault doesn’t wish he could live another life nor does he attempt to change his final judgement. Meursault’s inability to feel emotions and express them to others is a primary example of existentialism throughout the novel. From Meursault’s physical descriptions of
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