has painstakingly considered the exact ingredients to add to their work‚ and in what quantities. Nothing is added without a purpose‚ so if something reoccurs in a book‚ beyond the mundane circumstances‚ chances are‚ there is a weighty purpose. In Albert Camus’ The Stranger
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throughout her writings. Brown supports the idea of individuality and originality through forms of isolation. Albert Camus displays his existential views through the motif of conformity and confinement in his novel The Stranger .This portrayal of the difference between society’s expectations and a character’s mentality of refusing to conform to society’s expectations through confinement reveals Camus philosophical belief of the benevolent indifference of the universe. The image of the elderly people gathered
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destiny when they were born‚ while others think that they decide what they do by themselves. In "the stranger"‚ Albert Camus creates Meursault as a protagonist‚ who does not think about anything deeply. Because of that‚ he can not really enjoy his life. However‚ finally‚ he thinks about his life when he faces death; he truly realized how to face to the absurd world‚ and thus becomes Camus’ perfect existential hero. Meursault is indifferent‚ and he thinks he perfectly enjoys each moment; however‚ the
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The Stranger The Stranger written by Albert Camus‚ a Nobel Prize winner‚ tells the tale of a young man named Monsieur Meursault. In the beginning‚ Monsieur Meursault’s mother‚ Maman‚ has died. After getting a telegram containing news of Maman’s death‚ Monsieur Meursault heads to Marengo where his mother had been taken care of in a home. He is greeted by the director of the home who leads him to the mortuary to see Maman. Meursault attends her vigil that night and attends the funeral procession the
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The Guest by Albert Camus highlights several golden principles of life. For every action there is an opposite or equal reaction. Throughout the story‚ each character has a choice to make that will affect the well-being of others. The freedom of choice is shown through the conflict of the three characters—Daru‚ Balducci‚ and the Arab. Daru has a choice to allow the Arab to choose for himself‚ Balducci has a choice that could result in the loss of employment‚ and the Arab has a choice that may benefit
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“The Guest” explains the different ideals among different people‚ how a man’s morals could forgive or execute another man and his actions. Albert Camus depicts intriguing characteristics through his work of Daru and the Arab uncommon encounter. “The Guest” is a short story that expresses Camus’s attempt to convey the true isolation any human can feel at heart through a sense of absurdity and distress of his characters morals and how someone may truly be guilty of murder or of their own conscience
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* Albert Camus. Born Nov 7‚ 1913‚ in French colonial Algeria. * His father was killed in World War I‚ at the Battle of the Marne. * He lived with his mother‚ and brother sharing a two-bedroom apartment with his grandmother and a paralysed uncle. * He attended the University of Algiers‚ supporting his education by working odd jobs. However‚ he was forced to drop out of school due to ill-health. * The poverty and illness he experienced as a youth greatly influenced his writing.
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Algiers. There Meursault played in the water with Marie‚ “swimming smoothly and breathing easily.” (Camus 51). He told Masson‚ Raymond’s friend and owner of the beach house‚ it was nice‚ referring to him laying on his stomach on the sand with his face on
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Existentialism is a philosophy of existence that asks what the nature of human existence is. Albert Camus’ The Stranger is an existentialist novel because it represents three main ideas in the philosophy of existentialism: absurdity‚ death‚ and emotions. Absurdity according to an existentialist means life has no meaning or ultimate purpose‚ humans need to make sense and have purpose. Throughout The Stranger Meursault experiences many absurd act‚ for instance “Gentleman of the jury‚ the day after
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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 rational structure and meaning in their lives. The term “absurdity” describes humanity’s futile attempt to find rational order where none exists. Though Camus does not explicitly refer to the notion of absurdity in The Stranger
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