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Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Existentialism is a school of thought which emphasizes the significance of existence and those actions which modify one to experience their ingest existence, such as making decisions or feeling emotions. The bracing The Stranger was written during the existentialist movement, and thats why the take casing in the novel, Meursault, has a neutral and emotionless character because objectivity is the main boldness of existentialism. The Stranger, can be study with the themes of fatuousness, mans family with life, society, god, and free- entrust. The novel conveys many congresswomans of the absurdity of the human condition. While course session the novel, firstly it is noticed that Meursault shows no affection after he hears some his mom dying. He receives a telegram. Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I dont know. I got a telegram from the home: get under ones skin Deceased. Funeral Tomorrow. Faithfully yours. (Camus 3). When he gets home, he makes himself a coffee and s mokes. He doesnt even disquiet to see the dead trunk or mourn. Instead of grieving, he seems more worried near the time he will take to go to his renders funeral. Although Meursault has no emotions, he has a girlfriend named Marie. In their blood, Meursault mainly focuses on the forcible features of her rather than her characteristics. When he dialog ab off Marie, it is mostly about her appearance. I wanted her so bad You could make out the shape of her firm breasts... (Camus 34). When Marie asks him to connect her, he says that he does not love her, but he would marry her to make her happy. Their relationship portrays a good specimen of existentialism philosophy. Another example is the murder. Meursault kills the Arab on the beach not because he threatened him, he did not seem to hold out with that, but because the sunlight contact him on his eye so he got angry and killed the Arab brutally. The sear blade slashed at my eyelashes and stabbed at my stinging eye��...

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