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  • Gregor And Mersault
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    Compare and Contrast of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and The Stranger by Albert Camus Existentialism is defined as a philosophical movement that human beings are completely free and responsible for their own actions. Existentialists will try not to cause waves and remain completely uninvolved with anyone because they do not want to hurt anybody. There is absolutely no such thing as an existentialist because he would have to be so uninvolved to the point where he would not be able to live at ...
  • Dionysian Personality Of Mersault
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    Many books have been written by many authors that deal with a struggle between society and individual. Albert Camus' The Stranger (L'etranger) deals with this same topic, but it can be analyzed from a unique and very interesting point of view. The way of life of people can be analyzed by classifying them into two main forces that oppose each other. These forces were named after the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus. Theses terms were first used by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The mai...
  • Mersault Deals With People
    620 words
    In L'Etranger, Camus uses Mersaults' experiences such as his mothers' death, killing the Arab, the trial, and his interactions with other characters throughout the novel to convey his philosophy, which satisfies all principals of existentialism. To convey his existentialist philosophy, Camus uses the death of Mersaults' mother in the beginning of the novel. On the first page, Mersault is more concerned about the exact time of his mothers' death, and not the fact that he recently lost a loved one...
  • Mersault And Sisyphus
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    Mersault Sisyphus Sisyphus was given a punishment by the gods, to push a rock up a hill, only to have it fall down on him again. Mersault is a person accused of murder who has spent over a year in jail. What both these characters have come to realize is that they are forced to live in these situations created by the gods, therefore they might as well enjoy or get used to them. Mersault is forced to live in a cell, without his cigarettes, and with limited visitation rights. When this happens, Mer...
  • Main Character Mersaults Mother
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    Existentialism is the individual freedom of choice; in other words man is a conscious subject, rather than a thing. Of the many existentialistic themes, Camus strongly believed in absurdity. Camus opinion is that absurdity lies in the basic discord in the relationship between the human being and the universe. Thus, the human being discovers the absurdity of existence when he correctly perceives the universe. The absurdity of the human being is in its insecurity, rejections, agony, and also its d...
  • Mersaults Animal Nature Albert Camus The Stranger
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    Mersaults' Animal Nature Albert Camus' The Stranger starts with the death of a mother, maybe. Her son, Mersault, is unsure. He is also oblivious to the concepts of marriage, God, and repentance, as well as other institutions of society. According to social law, this is reason to execute him for a senseless murder. Mersault discovers that he is going to be tried and eventually die because of his nature and not due to the act he committed. Society is the collected human interaction and thought, an...
  • Mersaults Mothers Funeral Mersault
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    In the stranger, Camus uses Mersaults' experiences such as his mothers' death, killing the Arab, the trial, and his interaction with other characters throughout the novel to convey his philosophy, which satisfies all principals of existentialism. The existentialism idle proposes that man is full of anxiety and despair with no meaning in his life, just simple existing, until he's made a decisive being. To convey his existentialism philosophy, Camus use the death of Mersaults', mother in the begin...

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