Taylor Smith Mrs. Fowler IB Language Arts 17 May, 2016 The Stranger: The Epiphany The Stranger is a novel written by Albert Camus and was published in 1942. It follows the story of Meursault, an indifferent French Algerian, and his actions leading to his eventual death. Camus, a French philosopher, author, and journalist most notably renowned for his philosophy of absurdism, distributes a recurring theme of existentialism and absurdism throughout the novel, and heavily does so in passages that serve the most significance to the story.
Will Hartman Ms. Hogan English 4 March 10 Is Meursault a bad person? Is Meursault a bad person or just misunderstood? " The Stranger" by Albert Camus follows the life of a man named Meursault. This book was set in the 1940s. After careful consideration of Meurasult's actions and motives, it is obvious that he is an imperfect individual who is guilty of making very unethical decisions.
Jacob (5;0), on the other hand, had 3/4 (75%) performance with the English declaratives and 3/4 (75%) correct judgments with the Spanish declaratives. In an interesting fashion, Jacob consistently assigned a judgment of “silly” in two contexts. For example, Jacob had issues with sentence 2a) “They always put on socks”. He stated that this description was silly when describing the younger kids (who weren’t putting on their socks), yet Jacob also stated that the description was silly when used to describe the older kids (who were clearly shown putting on socks).
The Stranger, written by Albert Camus, It follows the story of our tragic hero, Meursault, shortly after his mother dies through the events that lead to him being sentenced to death. Camus uses the motif of weather to express Meursault’s emotions. The Stranger shows how even when a person does not explicitly express emotion they are shown in some way. How emotions are expressed is a window to a person's personality. I will first discuss how Meursault appears emotionless, than how Camus uses the motif of weather to express Meursault’s emotions for him and lastly what impact this makes.
I. Introduction ` A. Thesis: In his novel The Stranger, Camus uses motif of death and isolation to show his philosophical viewpoints which includes the theme of the universe being irrational and life being meaningless. II. Camus illustrates his critical observation of death by demonstrating it through the main character Meursault, who shows human existence has no logical meaning and people aiming to produce reasons as to why life is significant. III In the beginning of the story it starts off with Meursault receiving a telegram that his mother had passed
What if life contributed to no meaning and the only point which matters is the existence happening during the present? To make things worse, as humans live, they breath, but as they die a salvation is received to their soul, and their existence is over. The Stranger by Albert Camus illustrates that the human soul exists in the world physically, therefore the presence or absence does not contribute to any particular event in life. Through, this thought the novel introduces Meursault, who alienates himself from society. He lacks concern for social conventions and is deprived of the physical bounding from people around him.
Meursault is not like many people in Albert Camus’ “The Stranger”. He in fact is very unlike many people in the world. He goes about his life with little to no care about the happenings of others. He almost completely emotionless, as can be seen when he felt nothing upon the death of his mother. He is unafraid to hurt other’s feelings because he does not himself understand what feeling is.
On a warm summer evening, I sat down in my room with a new book in my hand. My friend informed me of a book titled “The Stranger” by Albert Camus. Playing the role of the persuader, my friend Julie briefly summarized the story which follows the detached character known as Meursault. Within the first minute, I found my interest spark. When I opened the book and began reading, I found my attention secured after the opener, “Mother died today.
In the novel, “The Stranger,” by Albert Camus, Meursault represents an immoral character. Most readers would believe him to be psycho or immoral and in most cases they were correct. Meursault is an emotionless silhouette of a man, but it doesn’t mean he was evil. In some ways, I sympathize with Meursault as a character because was misunderstood in many ways. Society judged him and thought he as evil because he had lack of emotion.
He makes a strong point saying "no matter whether you die at thirty or at seventy, since in either case other men and women will naturally go on living and for thousands of years. " Meursault feels that since death is soon to come to him, he is using this kind of mindset to have positive thoughts of just going along with the execution and understanding the concept of living. Meursault denies his understanding differences between execution and natural death. He started to accepts the concept of hope. What tortures him is for the fact that hop is a illusion that can change the fact of his death.
Albert Camus writes his novel The Stranger using a first-person perspective as he narrates the life of Meursault: a man who remains detached, distant, and unemotional from the world around him. The novel is divided into two parts: Part One noting eighteen days in which events such as Meursault witnesses his mother’s funeral, a love affair, and a murder occur. This first part of the novel documents the moments of Meursault’s day-to-day normality, until he commits murder. In Part Two, Camus describes approximately a year in duration, focusing on the trial as an aftermath of Meursault’s crime. In doing so, the same eighteen days from Part One are recounted, but from various characters’ memories and points of view, whereby Meursault is targeted
This generally signifies that Meursault understood why he got the punishment he did. He was satisfied with what was happening with his life at this point and he knew everything was happening for a reason. The jail cell on the other hand was also a place where he got to understand his mother’s perception better. For example he concludes that he begins to understand his mother 's feelings and emotions towards the end of her life. He sees the end of his life coming immediately and feels strangely prepared.
The themes of death explored using absurdism in The Stranger is shown with a general disregard for death by Meursault and the strange way he sees life based on these existentialist views. The Stranger is a perfect example of an existentialist novel that was written for that time period, as during this time around the area of France and Europe there was an existentialist movement that Albert Camus, the author, was involved in.
As the French, absurdist philosopher Albert Camus once said, “Being different is not a bad thing. It means you are brave enough to be yourself.” That summed up with our topic, which is absurdity through human existence, a human being should tolerate the absurd condition of human existence. Albert Camus introduces Meursault the protagonist and narrator of the book The Stranger, who is a stranger through society eyes and the title point out his personality in the world of absurdity. Meursault is indifferent and alienates young man to others.
In his novel The Stranger, Albert Camus creates an emotionally incapable, narcissistic, and, at times, sociopathic character named Meursault to explore and expose his philosophies of Existentialism and Absurdism. Throughout the story Meursault follows a philosophical arc that, while somewhat extreme - from unemotional and passive to detached and reckless to self-reflective - both criticizes the dependent nature of human existence and shows the journey through the absurd that is our world. In the onset of The Stranger, following his mother’s death, Meursault acts with close to utter indifference and detachment. While the rest of “maman’s”(9) loved ones express their overwhelming grief, Meursault remains unphased and, at times, annoyed at their
