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Lived His Life Rest Of Society
1,805 words... l service, and not even knowing his own mother's age proves to be outrageous when compared to the average human being's social and moral standards. But the fact is Meursault is not the average human being. Helene Poplyansky beautifully explained this when she said: Meursault is far from social convention or intellectual problems; what counts for him are his own sensations and desires. He is an outsider not only for others but also for himself. He looks at himself without trying to analyze hi...
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Feeling Guilty Meursault Deals Life
806 wordsIn Albert Camus novel, The Stranger, the main character Meursault displays a unique indifference to his surroundings and the world around him. It takes him a degree of time to come to terms with his indifference, but when he does he feels truly free from society's constricting bonds. He leads an apathetic lifestyle that is characterized by his constant lack of a definitive personality. Meursault wanders through life as if in a drunken stupor, living the life of a pleasure seeker. When he accepts...
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Life And Death Mother Death
1,297 wordsAlbert Camus' The Stranger explores the causes for Monsieur Meursault's murderous act, portraying Meursault's increasing feelings of indifference toward life following his mother's death. Meursault becomes ignorant to social values and conventions, thinking they constrict him, for he veers toward the 'I don't disrupt what you " re doing, so don't disrupt what I'm doing' outlook. He is more interested in the simple, physical actions rather than emotional feelings because he finds routine and reli...
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Peut Tre Albert Camus
2,337 wordsThe Stranger In The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book's narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He is the idealistic existentialist. 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 mother's death he sheds no tears; seems to show no emotions. He...
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Nursing Home Good Friend
1,847 wordsAlbert Camus was a French philosopher / writer who was born in Algeria (part of North Africa that was owned by the French) in 1913. He wrote this book showing how life is "absurd" because death is final, therefore making life meaningless. This is a very basic look at the philosophy and you shouldn't assume that what you read is all you really need to know about it. People are still debating what Camus was talking about hence why you have to read this book. Camus was killed in a car accident in 1...
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Good Or Bad Meaning And Purpose
1,289 wordsIn the book "The Stranger, " the main character, Meursault, is a stranger to himself, and to life. Meursault is a person who is emotionally and physically detached from the world. He seemingly cares only about himself, but at the same time could be concerned little about what happens to him. The title, "the Stranger, " could indicate Meursault's disconnection and indifference to the world that surrounds him and, therefore, his role as a stranger in the book. The title could also imply that he is...
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Meursault Attitude Towards Death Attitude Towards Death Meursault's
1,013 wordsMeursault, the main character and narrator of The Outsider, is perceived to be a life-loving and self-centred man, who lives his existential life in Algiers. This novel, by Albert Camus, suggests that nothing seems to matter to Meursault. His nothing-seems-to-matter attitude is manifested through his indifference nature, which can constantly be observed in the novel. Meursault's attitude towards death supports the fact that he is relatively indifferent. Meursault's refusal to think of the future...
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Meursault Has A Passion Passion For The Truth Life
1,066 wordsMeursault is a man who will not lie to himself. In Albert Camus The Stranger, his actions and reactions display him as an immoral man, expressing apathy towards society. He will not feign emotion, nor use religion as a vehicle to give his life meaning. Meursault has a passion for the truth, which allows him to have an open mind. These things make Meursault the immoral person that he is. At his trial for murdering an Arab, Meursault's inability to relate to the conventions of society puts him at ...
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Drinking And Smoking Source Of Conflict
1,375 wordsConflict in the Outsider A Man in Revolt The major source of conflict in the text, The Outsider written by Albert Camus, is ultimately Meursault s rebellion against the expectations of society. This conflict, caused be rebellion, controls the plot line of the text from the time of Meursault s mother s death and eventually leads him to his own death. Like Camus himself, Meursault was in love with the sun and the sea. His life was devoted to appreciating physical sensations. He is devoid of any em...
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Farewell To Arms Frederic Henry
4,767 wordsOne of the fascinations of reading literature comes when we discover in a work patterns that have heretofore been overlooked. We are the pattern finders who get deep enjoyment from the discovery of patterns in a text. And true to the calling we have noticed a pattern in and around A Farewell to Arms which, to our knowledge, no one has seen before. Although there are many editions of the novel, and as a result the pagination is slightly different in various editions, it is the case that all editi...
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Society Has Taught Relationship With His Mother
1,237 wordsTesting The Boundaries Of Algerian Conventional Society Testing The Boundaries Of Algerian Conventional Society Testing the Boundaries of Algerian Conventional Society In this essay, I am going to explore Albert Camus? use of Meursault? s murder trial in The Stranger to note the absurdity of the defined social behavior in Algeria while forcing the reader to evaluate his or her own morality. Camus asks the reader to form a mental and emotional relationship with Meursault through the descriptive a...
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Quest For Self Worth Existential Way Of Life Man
1,706 wordsExistentialism is a concept that is often explored in works of literature as a way of displaying a character s interaction with society. Existentialism is defined as: an introspective humanism or theory of man that holds that human existence is not exhaustively describable or understandable in either scientific or idealistic terms and relies upon a phenomenon-logical approach that emphasizes the analysis of critical borderline situations in a man s life and especially of such intensely subjectiv...
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Mother Death Lived His Life
1,283 wordsThe Stranger Meursault appears to be a typical, middle-class young man. He works as a clerk, rents an apartment, and enjoys women, the sea, the sun, and smoking. He appears normal? almost boring. His neighbors seem to trust him and approach him for help and advice. However, he lacks any emotion or passion towards anything in his life. Meursault lives life through the sensations of the here and now, describing these in much detail: the sun, sea, and sky; the feel of a crisp towel; the taste of go...
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Albert Camus Didn T
558 wordsIn L? etranger, an existentialist novel written by Albert Camus, the reader begins to discover that women are treated abusively or poorly. The main character in L? etranger, Meursault, views women as lesser than men; which ultimately conveys how women were thought of in Africa for that time period. In the second chapter, the reader first begins to get an idea of Meursault character, and his feelings towards women. After swimming with Marie Corona, who once worked as a typist at Meursault office,...
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Mothers Death Turning Point
1,752 wordsThe murder of the Arab is clearly the central event of the novel. Camus placed it in fact right in the middle of the book. It is the last incident recounted in part 1, so its importance is underscored by a structural break in the story. It is related in one of the longer chapters, which records in fine detail the events of the day, even when their relevance is not obvious for example, several paragraphs are devoted to describing how Marie and Meursault frolic in the sea. The murder marks an obvi...
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Raymond Asks Meursault Play The Game Friend
1,103 wordsMaman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I dont know, are the first statements made by the protagonist Meursault, in Albert Cause The Stranger, One finds this a very peculiar way to speak of a mothers passing. Meursault, however, finds his statement perfectly normal because he is not sure which day his mother died; he feels this is a perfectly logical statement. This quote is just one of the many examples of how Meursault is not a normal person in societies eyes. Meursault, in fact, is a man who re...
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Society Has Taught Relationship With His Mother
1,223 wordsTesting the Boundaries of Algerian Conventional Society In this essay, I am going to explore Albert Camus? use of Meursault? s murder trial in The Stranger to note the absurdity of the defined social behavior in Algeria while forcing the reader to evaluate his or her own morality. Camus asks the reader to form a mental and emotional relationship with Meursault through the descriptive and, in the end, destructively honest narrative. He then asks the reader to depend not on the law, which in this ...
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Life And Death Albert Camus
1,290 wordsAlbert Camus The Stranger explores the causes for Monsieur Meursault's murderous act, portraying Meursault's increasing feelings of indifference toward life following his mothers death. Meursault becomes ignorant to social values and conventions, thinking they constrict him, for he veers toward the I dont disrupt what youre doing, so dont disrupt what Im doing outlook. He is more interested in the simple, physical actions rather than emotional feelings because he finds routine and reliance there...
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Play The Game Funeral
1,086 words? Meursault 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 d...
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Final Stage Man Quot
953 wordsThe Stranger Camus shows that Meursault can find his true identity only through an encounter with death. Meursault goes through some deaths in his life that lead to his own. This awkward, but most entertaining, character discovers himself through the tragedy that occurs in his life. His life is a full one and he faces each situation the same way. The encounters of death starts here, the death of Meursault's mother. " I wanted to see Maman right away" (Camus 4), this extraordinary quote...
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