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Passion As Emma
1,320 wordsJulie Wells Comparative Essay Emma vs. Meursault Emma 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 ...
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Meursault And Raymond
799 wordsAlbert Camus' The Stranger, is told by narrarator, Meursault. Our speaker seems to be a person detached from feelings, he shows no emotion. Neither the external world in which Meursault lives nor the internal world of his thoughts and attitudes possesses any rational order. He doesn't have reasons for doing half of the things he does. For these reasons I believe Meursault is determined, but doesn't know it. Our protagonist and narrarator, Meursault is completely distant from his surroundings. Si...
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Meursault Lives Life
1,170 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 formulas for convention. He will not feign emotion, nor use religion as a vehicle to give his life meaning. Meursault has a passion for the truth, which opens the revelation for all humanity: life is absurd; it is mans mortal responsibility to be committed to himself, for death is definitive. At his trial for murdering an Arab, M...
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Meursault Deals With Raymond
836 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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Development Of Meursault's Memory And Imagination
1,013 wordsA Study in the Imagination and Memory of Consciousness The essence or even existence of consciousness serves as basis for any philosophical debate. In The Stranger Camus explores the progression of a man without consciousness. I will prove that once the court triggers Meursault's memory and imagination, it in turn sparks Meursault's development of consciousness. Camus introduces Meursault devoid of an effective memory or imagination. Without these, he is not truly conscious. He urges Sal amano t...
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Meursaults Attitude Towards Death
1,083 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. Meursaults attitude towards death supports the fact that he is relatively indifferent. Meursaults refusal to think of the future a...
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Meursault's Appearance To Society
3,817 wordsDerek Goff English 24104 Mr. Vena 14 April 2000 Meursault as "The Stranger" The way a person reacts to ordinary situations determines the opinions of others based on their behavior. Yet, when this behavior is abnormal or different from the rest of society, it causes society to form an opinion based totally on a person's behavior not their true personality. In Meursault's case, his strange opinions and unexpected remarks put him in this position, without ever really giving him an opportunity to b...
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Vladimir And Estragon
830 wordsAlbert Ca muss novel, The Stranger, and Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, are both great literary works but has many differences and similarities that distinguish the two. These characters are very different from their society and in that same way the are very similar. To understand in what ways they are similar, there must be and understanding of how they are different from the society in which they live in. First of all, the major difference from the novel and the play is their desire ...
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Meursault's Animal Side
883 wordsKiss From a Rose Raymond typifies the beast-character in Camus' L'Etranger. He is like Stanley from A Streetcar Named Desire (T. Williams), emotional and manly. Physical solutions come naturally to him, as we see when he mistreats his ex-girlfriend. Ideally, society is exactly the opposite; law and order attempt to solve things fairly and justly. I posit that Meursault is somewhere between these two extremes and that this is the reason why he is a societal outcast. This metaphor explains his maj...
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Meursault Lives
2,219 wordsTo What Extent Does Meursault illustrate the value of Authenticity To live authentically, in existentialism, means basically to live without deluding ourselves about the meaning of our lives or our place in the world, or about death. According to the existentialists, much of what we do is in what Sartre would call 'bad faith'. Religion is a prime example of Bad Faith. God is, allegedly, an imaginative excuse for not facing up to our own responsibilities in life. A priest spends his whole life te...
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Live And His Happiness
2,432 wordsAre Caulfield of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Meursault of Albert Camus The Stranger existential heroes The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. Steven Weinberg An existentialist is one who acts freely and responsibly accepts the consequences of his actions, who lacks any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong, good or bad (Shaw 148-149). Webster's defines the philosophy as being centered upon the emotional struggles of individual existence in ...
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Meursault's Feelings
1,008 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 mother's 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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