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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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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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Fourth Of July Born On The Fourth War
781 wordsAmerican intervention in Vietnam began with a generation of boys born to the veterans of the second World War. Boys who lived in the afterglow and dreamed of the glory. Patriotism was thick in a country who came out of the second great war stronger than it had entered. We were unbeatable. America had survived to continue its fight against injustice and for liberty. The new fight was against communism. The war might never have taken place had the United States aided Ho Chi Minh in the fight to li...
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Authoritative Text Backgrounds Heart Of Darkness
1,594 wordsAchebe, China. "An image of Africa: racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism / Joseph Conrad. 3 rd Ed. Robert Kimbrough. New York: Norton, 1988. 252 - 258. Sign, Frances B. "The colonialist ic bias of Heart of Darkness." Heart of Darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism / Joseph Conrad. 3 rd Ed. Robert Kimbrough. New York: Norton, 1988. 269 - 278. Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Heart of Da...
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The Plague By Albert Camus
812 wordsThe Plague written by Albert Camus tells the story of a city gripped by a deadly disease. The story takes place in the desert town of Oran, Algeria, in northern Africa. The city suffers from extremes of weather conditions. In the summer, the heat forces the inhabitants to spend those days of fire indoors, behind closed shutters. The shutters are closed just as the people of the town turn themselves off from there neighbors. The main focus of every citizen in Oran is himself. The previously menti...
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Woody Allen Romantic Comedy
561 words(b. Shelton Jackson Lee, 1956) Brooklyn-born filmmaker whose independent first feature, She's Gotta Have It (1986), a spirited romantic comedy, had critics calling him "the black Woody Allen. " (Lee reportedly despised the moniker; both men have a child named Satchel. ) With major studio backing Lee focused his talents on dramatizing race relations in films like School Daze (1988), Do The Right Thing (1989), and Jungle Fever (1991). (Widely considered Lee's strongest picture, Do The Right Thing ...
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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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Nature Lack Of Concern Lack Of Concern Men
457 wordsIn his short story, "The Open Boat, " Stephen Crane shows us a Universe totally unconcerned with the affairs of humankind; it is an indifferent Universe in which Man has to struggle to survive. The characters in the story come face to face with this indifference and are nearly overcome by Nature's lack of concern. They survive only through persistence and cooperation. The story opens with four men, known simply as the captain, the oiler, the correspondent, and the cook, stranded in the ocean in ...
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Acceptance Of All People March Of The Living Holocaust
1,557 wordsThe Holocaust refers to Nazi Germany's systematic genocide (ethic cleaning) of various ethic, religion, national, and secular groups during the World War 11 starting in 1941 and continuing through out the 1945. The word Holocaust itself originally derived from the Greek word (holokauston) meaning a complacently (holo's) burnt (karsten) sacrificial offering, or a burnt sacrifice offered to God. Holocaust was intentionally and amorously planned attempts to the entire eradicate the target group bas...
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Albert Camus Real Existence Or Reality
1,035 words... in. No one at all had any right to cry over her; it is rather a painful imposition of indifference on ones own self to counter the benign indifference of the outer-world. Sartre points out, in his critical essay on The Stranger, how the short un analytical, descriptive phrases in the narrative, express linguistically, a compellingly drab monotony. Jean-Baptist Clarence in The Fall (1956) is Camuss fictive alter-self, rendering an almost naturalistic self-confession. Revolving around a former...
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Anti Semitism Gas Chambers
867 wordsThroughout the movie, The Holocaust, the phrase, I just do my job, was usually the only excuse most people who committed crimes against the Jews could come up with. For example, when Helena and Rudy Weiss were staying in Kiev, the city was bombed. During the bombing, one of the Nazi soldiers, who happened to be Heinz Muller, a friend of Ingas family, was hit by falling debris. Hesitant, Rudy helped Muller escape from the collapsing building, gave him some water, and asked him why he was taking p...
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Lack Of Concern Femme Fatale
958 wordster> Brian says 'you " re about as fatale as an after dinner mint!' Is Sally really harmless? Brian's exasperated accusation that Sally is 'as fatale as an after dinner mint' is expressed at the end of a weekend away with Max. The outburst reveals Brian's opinion that Sally is not the seductress she fancies herself to be, but is simply 'deluding' herself. However, one must stop to consider the meaning of harmless when applied to Sally Bowles. She is essentially self-absorbed and theatr...
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein The Basic Role Of Family
2,002 wordsA reckless, opinionated, driven feminist, who changed the face of literature, such is the perception of Mary Shelley. Truth be told, the general population would be correct in their assumptions. However, if they were to delve deeper into the psyche of Mary Shelley, they would be astounded to see the true harsh reality of Mary's existence. The Romantic era which took place between 1770 and 1848 promoted a profound shift in sensibility and a life rooted in the emotions and sentiments. Mary Shelley...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Yellow Wall Paper
686 wordsAmerican literature is one of the prominent areas of social sciences that was developed by American writers throughout several centuries. This is not a very ancient literature style but despite that fact it is still very interesting for the reader to read especially if to draw the connection between the pieces of literature and time period when it was written. This is because each time period of the American history had many great people in it and also many outstanding events going on in it and ...
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Israeli Palestinian Conflict War Against Terrorism
1,647 wordsThe Stakes Terrorism is one of greatest shames and horrors of modern days human conduct. Terrorism has no nationality but most offenders appear to be the representatives of Islamic states. From very ancient times these two religions: Christian and Islamic had controversies and fought for dominance. But terrorism has many other aspects besides the religious and as resent events of terror show these aspects involves much more money and power. Shibley Telhami, who holds the Anwar Sadat chair at the...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Yellow Wall Paper
1,255 wordsAmerican Literature- Reflections American literature is one of the prominent areas of social sciences that was developed by American writers throughout several centuries. This is not a very ancient literature style but despite that fact it is still very interesting for the reader to read especially if to draw the connection between the pieces of literature and time period when it was written. This is because each time period of the American history had many great people in it and also many outst...
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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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Poem Begins Hollow Men
838 wordsImagery Depicted Through T. S. Elliot's The imagery depicted in T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men evokes a sense of desolate hopelessness and lends to Eliot's generally cynical view of civilization during this period in history. A reaction of deep and profound disappointment in mankind around him is made evident in this stark work, first published in 1925. In this short piece, Eliot enumerates several deep faults he finds in his fellowman, including hypocrisy, apathy and indifference, and leaves...
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Merchant Of Venice Love And Friendship
1,360 wordsMerchant Of Venice-Portia &# 038; Bassanio's Indifference To Merchant Of Venice-Portia &# 038; Bassanio's Indifference To Wealth How little is the cost I have bestowed in purchasing the semblance of my soul, (3. 5. 19 - 20) is where the heart of this play is in my eyes. Portia doing what she can for her one true love, Bassanio. Money is of no importance to her especially when it comes to the happiness or unhappiness of Bassanio. There are many places in the Merchant of Venice that show Portia an...
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Cosmic Irony Stephen Cranes
436 wordsStephen Cranes The Open Book: Cosmic Irony by: Sarah Closer Stephen Cranes The Open Boat, is thought to be one of the finest stories ever written by an American. Crane uses a theme of cosmic irony. Cosmic irony is the belief that the universe is so large and man is so small that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man. In The Open Boat, Cranes theme, cosmic irony, is illustrated through the use of symbols for isolation, insignificance, and indifference. Three specific examples of cosmic...
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