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Strong Emotions Life Events
823 wordsThe Macmillan dictionary for students defines stranger as: 1. Person with whom one is not acquainted or familiar. 2. Foreigner, outsider, or newcomer. 3. One who is ignorant of, unacquainted with, or unaccustomed to something specified. In the book, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, these three definitions apply to the protagonist, Meursault. Meursault is portrayed as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think about events and their consequences. He also fails to express any emotion in his...
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Mother Funeral Pay Attention
1,246 wordsEmma and Meursault were both strangers to society because of passion; Emma needed passion in a society that condemned it while Meursault refused passion in a society that promoted it. As early as Part I Chapter 5, Flaubert makes it evident that Emma is searching for passion. Before she was married, she mistakenly thought she was in love and therefore agreed to the marriage that could not consummate her desire for a passionate lifestyle. The world Emma lived in was constantly trying to downplay p...
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Camus The Stranger Myth Of Sisyphus And Existentialism
689 wordsIn two of his greatest works, "The Stranger, " and "The Myth of Sisyphus, " Albert Camus exposes his readers to the existentialistic parts of philosophy. The existentialism within his works shapes his characters, by determining how they will act and respond to what is going on around them. However, due to the existentialism, the character stands out in a way unique to the characters in that work. Meursault, the protagonist in "The Stranger, " is an insensitive individual. He shows no feelings to...
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Idea Of Afterlife Doesnt
551 wordsThe Stranger is a character with great primary values which allow him to live his life at a happier existence than other people. He is more content than those with opposite viewpoints on life. He is able to adapt to change very easily. He worries less. He is much more relaxed than anyone else and he doesnt get bothered by vexatious personalities. He doesnt have as much stress and therefore, he is healthier. Because of all these values, he is able to live a contented life, which is all he wants. ...
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Judge That It Exists Myth Of Sisyphus Camus
1,103 wordsMan is the only creature who refuses to be what he is Albert Camus announced this in the Introduction to The Rebel (1951). Encompassing the author in his above mentioned predicament, it would be impossible, however, to unravel his being. We would, thus, begin this analysis on Camus with the Sisyphus-like pre-supposition of sure shot failure, philosophies by the great man himself. Camus was born in 1913 at Mondovi in Algeria & was fostered all through by extreme poverty. He also played a vital ro...
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Play The Game Mothers Funeral
1,040 wordsMeursault is punished, not for his crime of killing another human being but for refusing to play the game. This statement is of great relevance to the novel The Outsider, by Albert Camus. Society as a whole enforces its ideas and values, upon all individuals, but particularly on those who differ from the norm. Through Meursault's view of the world, contrasted with that of both the religious and judicial system this notion is foregrounded. Meursault's outlook on death and dying is very different ...
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Emotional Energy Thousand Years People
1,097 wordsWhat is certain? The truth of stories written two-thousand years ago? That an invisible God exists above us? That all is pre-determined? That there is life after death? No, all that is certain is one self and death. Existentialism makes the most sense of any of the beliefs. Billions of people across the globe worship or pray to some form of a higher being or, g God, h on a regular basis; I find this to be somewhat insecure behaviour. The fact that a person needs to go that far and waste that muc...
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La Vie Make Sense
964 wordsIt has been said that the eyes are the windows to a persons soul. It can be reasonably stated, therefore, by reasons of logic, that what one perceives is an indication as to what type of soul one has. In The Stranger, Monsieur Meursault is vivid in his descriptions of the sensations provided him by his five physical directories. In explicit details he describes the feel of the heat of the sun on his bare skin, the sights and sounds of the night as he sat on his balcony, undoubtedly the taste of ...
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Heat And Light Mothers Funeral Sun
357 wordsThroughout the novel The Stranger, by Albert Camus, there were many specific references to the light, heat, and the suns glare. This theme continues throughout the entire story. The intensity of the sun and heat affect Meursault's emotions, and his extreme sensitivity has an impact on his behavior. Meursault has a great awareness of light and temperature, and in each significant setting of the story, heat and light play a major role. While the sun has been a source of pleasure to Meursault when ...
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Strong Imagery Mother Funeral
580 wordsIB English Paper Many artists, authors, and composers have put the beauty and warmth of the sun in their work. The Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh created landscapes that expressed his joy with bright sunshine. The American poet Emily Dickinson wrote a poem called "The Sun, " in which she described the rising and setting of the sun. The Russian composer Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov included a beautiful song, "Hymn to the Sun, " in his opera The Golden Cockerel. Uniquely, Camus' usage of the sun oppos...
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Readers See Meursault Sun And Wind People
959 wordsMeursault, the main character and the narrator of the story, is a 30 -year-old shipping clerk who lives an ordinary day-to-day existence. We see him as a son (at his mothers funeral); as a friend; as a solitary creature pursuing simple experiences from moment to moment; and as a prisoner, first on trial, then awaiting execution. Physical sensations of sun and wind and physical activities such as swimming or running mean a great deal to him. Larger experiences in his life- the death of his mother...
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Myth Of Sisyphus Indifferent Universe
821 wordsConcern with the absurdity of the human condition, believing that that the world does not offer a basis for peoples lives and values, has pervaded the thought of many writers. The protagonists in Camus The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus illustrate Camus absurdist outlook. This philosophy is also evident in Miss Lonelyhearts, the work of Nathanael West. Miss Lonelyhearts addresses the central dilemma facing modern man; nothing in our world can provide people with the answers, values or morals ...
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Individual Freedom Human Nature
458 wordsCamus The Stranger: Choice And Individual Freedom Camus The Stranger: Choice And Individual Freedom Are Integral Components Of Human Nature Camus The Stranger: Choice and Individual Freedom Are Integral Components of Human Nature Camus The Stranger is a grim profession that choice and individual freedom are integral components of human nature, and the commitment and responsibility that accompany these elements are ultimately the deciding factors of the morality of ones existence. Meursault is pl...
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Mother Died Existentialism Life
300 wordsTo existentialists our Existentialism Existentialism To existentialists our world is a universe in which independence, freedom, and choice all play a major role. This further explains the principle that Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. The Stranger, by Albert Camus reflects this philosophy in many ways. Mr. Meursault the main character seems to live in his own world, socializing with others, but apathetic about what happens in his life. For example, when his mother died, his tho...
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Albert Camus Mother Died
1,816 wordsThe Stranger: Analysis Author: Albert Camus Pierre Palmer English II. Period # 5 Date: 1 copyright, by Pierre Palmer I. Biographical Insights A. Albert Camus cultures consist of being a novelist, literature and short story writer of many books. He wrote an essay on the state of Muslims in Algeria, causing him to lose his job and he moved to Paris. Albert Camus also joined the French resistance against the Nazis and became an editor of Combat, an underground newspaper. He was dissatisfied with th...
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Neo Isolationist Rejection Darwism And Neo Isolationist Rejection Existence
437 wordsExistentialist Darwism And Neo-isolationist Rejection In CamuExistentialist Darwism And Neo-isolationist Rejection In Can Cause The Stranger is a grim profession that choice and individual freedom are integral components of human nature, and the commitment and responsibility that accompany these elements are ultimately the deciding factors of the morality of ones existence. Meursault is placed in an indifferent world, a world that embraces absurdity and persecutes reason; such is the nature of e...
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Past Experiences Social Construct
2,454 wordsIncompetent Texts in Camus, Sartre, and Celine The Stranger, by Albert Camus, Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre, and Death on the Installment Plan, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, all contrast themselves with internal texts that fail to represent the world competently. The Stranger includes the prosecutors narrative of the murders as an incompetent text by refusing to support the motives he assigns. It contrasts itself with the prosecutors narrative in view of the excessive language of the prosecutor versu...
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Waiting For Godot Vladimir And Estragon
603 wordsHow can there be intertextuality between The Stranger and anything else within this universe? Camus would think it absurd! The mere idea that an absurdist novel could have a connection with something other than itself seems pure rebellion against its core philosophic principles. Can one not see the inescapable irony created within the task of finding such intertextuality? But if a connection must be made, what then should it be made to? The clear answer is nothing. In Waiting for Godot by Samuel...
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Rational Explanation Emotional Attachment
380 wordsMeursault, a young man living in Algiers, receives a report of his mother Madame Meursault's funeral. He attends her funeral, but he does not show any outward signs of appropriate grief. He returns to his home and immediately begins an affair with Marie Cardona, a former co-worker. After the weekend ends, he concludes that his mothers death has changed nothing. The banal rhythm of a Sunday afternoon remains exactly the same as it was before. He strikes up an acquaintance with Raymond Site, a loc...
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Marie Cardona Meursault Doesnt
541 wordsIn The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the books narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays an impassiveness throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events described in the book. After his mothers death he sheds no tears; seems to show no emotions. He displays limited feelings for his girlfriend, Marie...
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