Statement of intent: This assignment is based on Albert Camus’ The Outsider. One of the classic examples of an existentialist novel, The Outsider tells the story of an unremarkable man, living a simple, bachelor existence in Algeria. He is unmoved by his mothers death, and a day after begins a love affair with Marie Cordona. […]
Strangers in Their Own Land focuses on Arlie Russell Hochschild who is a sociologist from Berkeley. She wants to understand the emotion and decision making behind the conservative voters. She believes that one’s affiliation with a certain political party has become the largest divider in society. Her interest in understanding the true emotion behind Republican […]
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Get startedThe Kindness of Strangers In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois closes the story with the quote, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Unfortunately for Blanche, the statement showcased the traumatic end of her story, but I believe there is a much more positive meaning in her words. We […]
In the book The Stranger by Albert Camus, he illustrates that isolation from society leads to being emotionally detached which results in what others may perceive as inhumane acts. Albert Camus illustrates this idea through the main character, Meursault, who happens to be a detached and indifferent person that does not care about anything except […]
The Stranger In The Stranger, Philip Thody had a good judgement of the overall theme in the text. Thody concluded that Camus illustrated two contradicting themes, human life will be more worth living because it has no meaning and that a person who is lacking self-awareness will never have a correct representation of attitude towards […]
The reason why this quote is important goes beyond the fact that they are the opening lines of the novel. These words said by the narrator, Meursault already introduces the readers to his personality at the beginning of the story. For example, it seems like he does not feel any pain or guilt upon hearing […]
From Albert Camus’s The Stranger his idea of absurdity are shown from the main character Meursault. His lack of feeling and emotions, also his belief of the meaning of life portray him as an existentialist. Meursault does not get involved or care about anything else, he just want get up, go to the same job […]
In Camus’ The Stranger, the main character, Meursault has established himself as an individual who works against the norms of society. He fails to understand the moral behavior required or the societal behaviors required to participate in the society in which he lives. He possesses an attitude that life has no meaning or purpose. It […]
The Stranger the leading character is a young man named Meursault. He is a Frenchman living in French ruled Algeria in Algiers. The novel begins with Meursault receiving a telegram informing him of his mothers passing. After receiving the telegram Meursault takes the bus to Marengo to the retirement home his mother was living in. […]
Making decisions is a process we do everyday but everyone makes different decisions. Some people make decisions that can lead you to good places in your life and other people make decisions that can be bad and lead you to bad places in your life. Whether you choose not to focus on your education, you […]
Isolation can be seen as beneficial or detrimental. Isolating one’s self can reboot and unwind the brain, improve concentration, increase productivity, provide opportunities to discover yourself and find your own voice, provides time for you to think deeply, help you work through problems more effectively and enhance the quality of your relationships with others. On […]
In the book The Stranger, Albert Camus highlights many motifs to show his existentialist ideas. Camus does this by incorporating concepts of isolation, emotionless and sadness into his main character, Meursault. Meursault struggles with fitting in the norms of society and realizing that there is more to life than he believes. Camus highlights his existential […]
Albert Camus’s book The Stranger contains a very complex character, Monsieur Meursault. Meursault has complete indifference to the world around him. His attitude towards the lack of meaning in everything is easily relatable for many, until the effects of his indifference catches up to him and manifests itself. The common philosophy that many place Meursault […]
Imagine where all of the past is lacking in any purpose and only the present pertains meaning to an individual. Where the existence of an individual has has been vanished after his or her death, as if any entity of faith, for instance God, is to be deemed as fruitless. In the novel, The Stranger, […]
Throughout the novel the Stranger, Camus beliefs of existentialism and the absurdity of life are portrayed through the protagonist Meursault’s. Existentialism is the belief that existence precedes essence and that there is no true purpose to human life. Existentialism is seen throughout Meursault when he shows no emotion to the death of his mother, when […]
