The Itinerant One The Stranger by Albert Camus starts off with Meursault‚ who is the narrator of the story (in first person)‚ getting him a sad telegraph that tells him about the death of his beloved mom. Meursault then with no emotion goes to Marengo to see his mother’s body. The director of the assisted living home told him that he could see his mother. When Meursault found out that she was in her coffin‚ he declined the offer to take a look at her with disgust on his face. In the night‚
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Albert Camus’ The Stranger revolves around an ordinary man‚ Mersault‚ living in French Algiers in the 1940s. Narrated in first person point of view through Mersault’s eyes‚ the novel is about his life and his physical and emotional relationships around him. Beginning with the death of Mersault’s mother‚ the novel offers an existential point of view on life and is an exemplar of Camus’ philosophy of the absurd. Mersault’s character is initially nihilist and this novel is a narrative of how Mersault
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The Stranger by Albert Camus we are introduced to Meursault‚ a psychologically detached character who at first seems indifferent and apathetic which at first is very frustrating to the reader. However‚ through multiple readings‚ you understand the character is almost a mirrored reflection of the author. The author Albert Camus‚ tells us his views on society and the justice through his character Meursault. His views on justice most importantly are shown socially and philosophically. Albert Camus
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The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1946. The novel begins with Meursault receiving a telegram informing him of his mother’s death. Over the next two weeks after the funeral‚ Meursault carries on like nothing tragic happened. He gets a girlfriend‚ befriends a pimp‚ and goes on a beach vacation with both. During the vacation‚ he and Raymond‚ the pimp‚ get into a fight with the Arabs and Meursault kills one without an explanation for the crime. At the murder trial‚ the court said he was cold-hearted
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THE STRANGER "What is it‚ indeed‚ the absurd man? The one who‚ without denying it‚ does not make anything for the eternal. It is not that the nostalgia is strange to him‚ but rather he prefers his anger and his reasoning. The first one teaches him to live without appeal and to be satisfied with what he has; the second teaches his limits. Sure of his freedom to term‚ of his rebellion without future and of his perishable conscience‚ his adventure continues in the time of its life. The field is
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Professor Jean Warrington English115 March 2014 The Stranger Draft The Stranger by Albert Camus holds a nihilistic theme. Camus‚ being a philosopher‚ wrote a lot about his perspective on life. He discusses how he believes that life has absolutely no meaning besides living in order to inevitably face death. In the story‚ The Stranger‚ Meursault symbolizes Albert Camus’s beliefs through his personality and actions. Neither the external world in which Meursault
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humans are transparent and simple; we have needs and simply seek to fulfill them. There is a specific order to our behavior and that behavior is being driven by a need or desire. Camus challenged this notion with The Stranger. In one sense he upheld the idea that we simply strive to fulfill needs. In another sense‚ Camus forced us to understand that sometimes there is no reason‚ no need being met; simply an organism reacting to stimuli. He highlighted the contradictory nature of humans with his main
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The Stranger Reading Journal Essay In Albert Camus’ The Stranger‚ the story is told in a first person point of view from Monsieur Meursault as the narrator. For a more obvious reason‚ the book is told in his point of view because he is the main character‚ but there are multiple other possibilities for why Camus did so. The book is a memory of what happened leading up to his execution‚ which is why it needed to be in first person point of view. Camus did this because there are a lot of things
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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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In the story “The Stranger” by Albert Camus there are many theme that are shown throughout the whole book. Themes of the books can be absurdity of life‚ relationships‚ and indifference and passivity. The main character also known as Meursault is in the heart of all of these themes. From Meursault’s perspective he believes that the world is meaningless‚ this can be the absurdity of life. Absurdity of life is shown throughout the book. From the beginning from the beginning Meursault thinks that the
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