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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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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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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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Life And Death Mothers Funeral
1,524 wordsThe Relationships of Meursault's Character, And His Perceptions of The Worlds Senses. In the book The Stranger by Albert Camus, Meursaults was the main character who lived a simple and an uneventful life as a shipping clerk. Life was not all that important to him, except for daily physical pleasures. He was content with only of his existence and was not concerned or reacted to the responsibilities that society dictated to him. He had a casual attitude about his life and the relationships with ot...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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