In his Novel The Stranger‚ Albert Camus tells the story of a man‚ Meursault‚ a character who shows almost no emotions‚ even though he lives an ordinary life. He has a job‚ a girl who loves him‚ and a life full or purpose‚ yet he still acts as a stranger in his work life‚ social life‚ and love life. From the first line of the story Meursault was strange‚ “Mother died today. Or‚ maybe‚ yesterday; I can’t be sure.” The telegram from the Home says: “Your mother passed away. Funeral tomorrow. Deep sympathy
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within the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Within the overarching existentialist movement there was a plethora of ideas that overlapped but were oppositional. Existentialist thinkers such as Soren Kierkegaard and Albert Camus at first glance may not express compatible ideas‚ but the two share similar views on the absurdity of life. Kierkegaard held the
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Existentialism in Camus‚ the Outsider’ and Kafka’s‚ The Metamorphosis’ Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Albert Camus’ The Outsider‚ both feature protagonists in situations out of which arise existentialist values. Existentialism is a philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe‚ regards human existence as unexplainable‚ and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one’s acts. In The
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Per. 6 The Plague DBQ 1995 Beginning in the mid-fourteenth century‚ a plague swept the world like no other. It struck in a series of waves that continued into the eighteenth century. The first wave was estimated to have killed twenty-five million people‚ about a third of the Western Europe population at that time. Throughout the different outbreaks‚ the plague‚ also known as the Bubonic Plague or the Black Death‚ caused people to react in several ways. Some people believed the plague was a medical
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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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in the plague‚ even though Shakespeare was alive almost 300 years after the largest outbreak of the Black Death. Shakespeare’s plays were really crowded.So crowded in fact‚ that they were “considered to be hotbeds for contagion”(Rasmussan and DeJong 7). Even though the Black Death was easily spread in the theatres people still came and watched Shakespeare’s plays. People came to his plays because they helped people
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Paper # 2: The Great Plague “An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not‚ as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18‚ disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust‚” stated by Barbara W. Tuchman‚ A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. The Great Plague was the worst outbreak in England since the black death of 1348. The Great Plague began in 1665 until 1666 that lead to 68‚596
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Adrianna Silerio Mr. Garcia AP European History‚ p. 6 24 September 2014 Plague – DBQ Prompt: Analyze the various responses to the outbreaks of plague from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Discuss the beliefs and concerns that these responses express. In the mid-fourteenth century of Europe‚ a deathly plague struck killing about 25 million people from a single fleabite. Once infected‚ a person would experience very high fevers‚ buboes‚ and die within a few days and it was an airborne
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The Epidemic is Here The Black Plague‚ one of the most devastating out breaks in history‚ is an historical event brought about with a great depression throughout Europe. This plague brought out the worst in mankind during the time the plague ran its course. How do people behave‚ when there environment becomes life threatening? (Herlihy‚ 18). The Black Death accounted for nearly one third of the deaths in Europe. Due to the death of many people there were severe shortages in labors‚ during
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The Black Death swept through Europe‚ causing what is now known as one of the “most devastating pandemics in human history.” This disease was brought into Europe by ships that carried rats that were bit by fleas who carried the disease. The Black Plague caused a tremendous population drop in England‚ which caused the peasants to revolt in 1381‚ due to the higher value that had been placed on labor. I chose this topic because I am very fascinated by the fact that a disease swept out about a third
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