Tuesday, November 21, 2017

'The Stranger by Albert Camus'

'existentialism is a philosophy which emphasizes the signifi displacece of world and those actions which enable oneness to experience their avouch existence, such as making decisions or feeling emotions. The figment The Stranger was write during the Existentialist movement, and thats why the guide persona in the refreshful, Meursault, has a indifferent(p) and emotionless character because objectivity is the of import aspect of existentialism. The Stranger, can be study with the themes of ridiculousness, mans affinity with life, society, god, and free- impart. The novel conveys many characters of the absurdity of the human condition. bit reading the novel, first off it is noticed that Meursault shows no affection afterwards he hears astir(predicate) his mom dying. He receives a telegram. Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I dont know. I got a telegram from the legal residence: Mother Deceased. Funeral Tomorrow. faithfully yours. (Camus 3). When he gets home, he makes himself a drinking chocolate and smokes. He doesnt even lambaste to see the deadened body or mourn. Instead of grieving, he counts more demented active the quantify he will take to go to his mothers funeral. Although Meursault has no emotions, he has a girlfriend named Marie. In their relationship, Meursault generally focuses on the forcible features of her rather than her characteristics. When he talks most Marie, it is mostly ab unwrap her appearance. I cute her so poor You could make out the shape of her riotous breasts... (Camus 34). When Marie asks him to marry her, he says that he does not love her, and he would marry her to make her happy. Their relationship portrays a redeeming(prenominal) example of existentialism philosophy. Another example is the murder. Meursault kills the Arab on the strand not because he threatened him, he did not seem to bother with that, only because the sunlight take out him on his pith so he got angry and killed the Arab b rutally. The heat blade cut at my eyelashes and stabbed at my stinging eyeball�... '

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