Imagine a man so absurd‚ yet so in tune with himself that he does not go through the motions of life for anyone. This man has been brought to life in The Stranger by Albert Camus. The story takes place in a costal town of Algeria. The main character is named Meursault. He is an ordinary office clerk with no real aspirations of progress‚ love‚ or greatness. He does not have any false emotions and does not do anything to please people. He did not even cry or feel bad at his own mother’s funeral because
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Topic #1 Illustrate how Meursault’s indifferent attitude and moral ambiguity is fundamentally at odds with society’s expectations of how a person should think and behave. Outline I. Thesis Statement: In The Stranger‚ society views Meursault as a cold-hearted killer and a moral "blank." It categorizes him as dangerous and evil because Meursault refuses to conform to society’s accepted standards of behavior. II. Meursault’s attitude and behavior A. At his mother’s vigil and the funeral 1. Meursault
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Finding Sense In Senselessness A senseless world is creatively put together by Lewis Carroll to become a very imaginative plot of entertainment‚ yet is has yielded a variety of concerns that relate to life throughout the novel. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass relate to a dream-like world that is full of adventures that of which a young girl‚ Alice‚ accompanied by various animals‚ insects‚ and imaginary characters experience. Carroll has not only created an abstract
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His first and best known novel --- catch-22 published in 1961 was recognized as one of the most important books in America since the World War Two. And the “catch-22” has entered the American vocabulary to express the frustration of encountering absurd obstacles. Nowadays‚ an increasing number of scholars write books and essays to expound different aspects of the novel. Through detailed search and analysis‚ it was found that at present there are at least 130 academic papers about Catch-22 on
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aspects to the story. Most people don’t realize how much of the story is normal. But as the audience will further know‚ there are things that we do every day that is shared with the characters in the story. One of the many commonplace things in the absurd fiction is something that can also be considered as a gender assumption but the fact of the woman in the house cooking and the man waiting angrily
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best to use the reductio ad absurdum (reduction to absurdity) which will seek to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that an unsound‚ false‚ or absurd result follows from its denial‚ or in turn to demonstrate that a statement is false by showing that an unsound‚ false‚ or absurd result follows from its acceptance. (Bo‚ 2012) The absurd conclusion of this type of argument can take the form of “The Earth cannot be flat‚ otherwise we would find people falling off the edge”. This argues that
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Discussion Questions for The Stranger (1946); translated by Matthew Ward‚ 1988. Part One Chapter 1. 1. How does Camus set up Meursault’s personality -- how does Meursault respond to others’ conversation‚ to ordinary social situations‚ and to the death of his mother? 2. On page 10‚ Meursault says that at the viewing of his mother‚ he felt as if the elderly people there were judging him. Offer a conjecture about why he might have had that feeling. (It is worth paying attention to such references to
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OSCAR MAYER The demand started to shift towards consumption of white meat & more healthy food products‚ it happened not only because of their sudden desire of becoming health conscious but also because of the rising prices of the meat being offered. The consumers need is food/breakfast‚ lunch & dinner. Their want was meat‚ be it red or white but healthy & full of nutrition. Their want was backed by their ability to purchase the meat in the market thereby increasing
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Compare and Contrast the work of Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth on understanding attachment ‘Attachment’ is a lasting secure and positive feeling that bonds one person to another‚ one of the strongest forms of attachment is thought to develop between a mother and child. Many psychologist‚ sociologist‚ physicians and psychoanalysts have sought to explore the fundamental nature of attachment and how it had evolved. Within this essay I shall examine • The origins of attachment • Psychologist who seek
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The strangeness of Meursault is evident when the prison Chaplain attempts to take his confession. He does not believe in God and find no reason to be despair. Although he is aware of his inevitable future‚ he thinks “ I didn’t have time to waste thinking about things that didn’t interest me”. In this perspective‚ he differentiates himself from everyone else. He sees life as meaningless‚ torturous‚ boring and dull. So for him‚ Death is equal to heaven‚ a permanent freedom. He shows the difference
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