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    Plague’s allegorical and metaphysical narrative. Like most human observations‚ we notice the the obvious first‚ before we pull and prod at the exterior to reveal something more ambiguous and at the same time‚ something rather apparent. In the novel‚ Camus‚ “[juxtaposes] […] the symbolical and the realistic‚” creating a polygonal register where the connotative qualities can be discovered when taking into consideration Camus’s style of narration and metaphorical language (Picon‚ 147). Camus’s novel consists

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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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    Albert Camus’ The Stranger is about Meursault‚ an acutely detached‚ unaffected man‚ who kills an Arab‚ then is tried and convicted and sentenced to death. The novel focuses on the absurdity of life‚ which rises in the duality of one’s desire to find the point of existence‚ and their inability to do so. The absurd envelops all things‚ and Camus is devout in the return of an affectionate embrace‚ for he is convinced that only when one is entirely free of hope‚ can they live. As living things that will

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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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    In Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger‚ the main character Meursault lacks significant identifying features such as a first name‚ specific age‚ or any physical features. He does not possess these because to give him a name or a description would be to give him an identity. Because Meursault lacks a solid identity‚ Camus portrays him as an absent being‚ detached from society and its norms. The main cause of the conflict in the novel is Meursault’s distance from society and his flatness as a character

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