A question that I came across on the first chapter of The Stranger‚ by Albert Camus was What is the significance of Meursault’s mother funeral being religious‚ even though she never truly cared about religion? I specifically remember Meursault mentioning that the guy at the funeral home had a religious funeral setup‚ however‚ his mother never truly cared about religion. Did the funeral home decide the arrangements of the funeral or was it discussed by other people? If Meursault didn’t think a religious
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TROIS THEMES DANS L’ETRANGER D’ALBERT CAMUS In the novel‚ The Stranger‚ author Albert Camus confronts some important issues of the time‚ and uses the singular viewpoint of the narrator Meursault to develop his philosophy and effectively weave together themes of absurdity‚ colonialism‚ and free will. Through the progressive disruption of Meursault’s life and his characterization‚ Camus presents the absurdity of the human condition along with
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if Hitler asked You to Electrocute a Stranger would you? In the beginning‚ Stanley Milgram was worried about the Nazi problem. He doesn’t worry much about the Nazis anymore. He worries about you and me‚ and‚ perhaps‚ himself a little bit too. Stanley Milgram is a social psychologist‚ and when he began his career at Yale University in 1960 he had a plan to prove‚ scientifically‚ that Germans Philip Meyer © Philip Meyer. Originally published in Esquire‚ February 1970. artwork © Michael Leonard
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"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe‚ I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: ’Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.’ That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday." Part 1‚ Chapter 1‚ pg. 3 Mersault’s preoccupation with the exact date that his mother had passed genuinely perplexed me. This man had just lost his only family in the world and he was caught up in‚ what I believe to be‚ a frivolous detail. Off the bat‚ the book starts off with these lines‚ foreshadowing
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“Alienation is defined as emotional isolation or dissociation from others ... it is the feeling of not belonging” The theme of Alienation is explored in both TS Eliot’s‚ The love song and Preludes and it is explored though many poetic techniques including repetition and animal imagry. In both of these poems the persona is alienated from himself and from society. One of the ways that the poet explores alienation is though the use of imagry. He compares him to a cat‚ an insect stuck to the wall
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Psychoanalysis of Holden Caulifield Through life we all experience events both physically and emotionally destructive causing us to feel down‚ but most of us bounce back. These feelings are a part of life. Holden Caulifield comes off as a controlled‚ passive‚ typical teenager. As the story progress we learn he is far from it. Holden’s actions‚ thought process‚ his outlook on life and the way he grieves all suggest that he is suffering post traumatic stressed syndrome better known as PTSD. PTSD
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A Subaltern Study: Subaltern is a word that is used to denote some one with low ranking in a social political and other hierarchy. It also used to describe some one who has been marginalized or oppressed. This term was first adopted by Antonio Gramsci who was an Italian Marxist. He used the term subaltern to refer the groups who are outside the established structure of political representation. It may also be emphasized that Bonaventura de Sousa Santos (2002) used the term subaltern cosmopolitan
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Outline and examine Marx’s concept of alienation Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) was a historian‚ philosopher and social scientist whose theories and beliefs went unnoticed when he was alive. It was after his death that people realized that he was one of the most significant social thinkers of the 19th Century. (Kreis‚ S. 2000) Marx focused greatly on economic problems and linked these concerns to social problems‚ which resulted in great sociological outcomes. (Giddens‚ 2001‚ p11) An example of
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Alienation sometimes called estrangement is a psychological‚ sociological or Philosophical-anthropological category‚ largely derived from the writings of Hegel‚ Feuerbach and Marx. When one is not accepted by society‚ he becomes an Outsider to everyone around him. Alienation refers to an individual’s estrangement from traditional community or others in general (social isolation)‚ the dominant values of society‚ or even themselves (self-estrangement)‚ but in General the term implies
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(Macklemore). Macklemore states that in a world so detestable; people would rather choose to die than be who they truly are. In other words‚ in The Stranger Meursault is killed for not having enough emotion during his mother’s death‚ he is indifferent and chooses to die because the society believes he is not normal. In Albert Camus novel‚ The Stranger‚ he examines what happens to a society when the social constructs are corrupt. This essay will examine the corrupt social constructs impact on Meursault’s
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