wreckage‚ but a poor and naked enamoured of the sun that leaves no shadow. Far from being bereft of all feeling‚ he is animated by passion that is deep because it is stubborn‚ a passion for the absolute‚ and for truth.” - Camus‚ “Preface” to “The Stranger”. Camus’s antihero‚ Meursault is condemned in a court of law‚ not necessarily for the crime of killing an Arab under a blinding North African sun‚ but rather he refuses to “play the game”. He remains aloof from the preoccupations of those who are
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for meaning pointless. He describes that the Absurd life comprises of “Consistency‚ authenticity‚ self-awareness” (Barnett 3). In other words‚ one must be true to and conscious of their choices in life to follow the Absurd. A main component of existentialism is that “Each
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He was actually a writer and novelist with a strong philosophical bent. Absurdism is an offshoot of Existentialism and shares many of its characteristics. Camus himself was labeled as an ‘Existentialist’ in his own life‚ but he rejected this title. He was not the first to present the concept of Absurd but it was owing to him that this idea gained popularity and influence‚ and it transformed into a proper philosophical movement of Absurdism. His famous novels include The Stranger [also translated as The Outsider ] and The Fall
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Reaction Paper: 2 The Stranger In Albert Camus’s The Stranger‚ he shares with the reader‚ the life of an immensely complicated character. The story is presented to the reader by the character himself in most of the story. The character’s name is Meursault‚ a detached and semi-normal shipping clerk. Meursault appears to be rather stoic and is devoid of emotions. Meursault remains unaffected by passion and emotions throughout the story: however as the story progress towards the end Meursault is showing
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Camus’ The Stranger explores the philosophic ideology of existentialism in the character Meursault. Meursault is a man in the 1920s in French Algeria going through life seeing and acting through the lens of an existentialist. Without explicitly stating that he lives existentially‚ his life hits on many key characteristics of an existentialist. Perhaps the most defining of these key characteristics is that he does what he wants‚ because he can. He also does this because in existentialism there is
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Your true self Existence precedes and commands Essence. (Jean Paul Sartre) We regarded any situation as raw material for our joint efforts and not as a factor conditioning them: we imagined ourselves to be wholly independent agents. ... We had no external limitations‚ no overriding authority‚ no imposed pattern of existence‚ we created our own links with the world‚ and freedom was the very essence of our existence. (Simone de Beauvoir‚ 1963). Many people believe that freedom is something that you
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Suicide is‚ according to Sartre‚ “an opportunity to stake out our understanding of our essence as individuals in a godless world” (Stanford‚ 2004). Fundamentally‚ existentialism argues all individuals are free and therefore responsible for their actions. Thus‚ it is up to the individual to create an ethos of personal ideology‚ which is the only way one is able to rise above the human condition of suffering‚ death and finality (Guigon‚ 2001). Suicide is seen as the individual’s act of giving in to
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Throughout the novel Grendel by John Gardner‚ the monster Grendel has many different encounters that change his view on the world‚ but it becomes unequivocally clear that his true way of life is through nihilism. Grendel starts out in life as a nihilist where everything is meaningless to him. However‚ he longs for meaning. His only dilemma is within himself because he cannot see how an animal like him has any true purpose. As Grendel matures and leaves his mother he becomes interested in looking
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Part I 1. In Thomas Nagel’s “The Absurd” (1971)‚ he begins by addressing the standard arguments for declaring life to be absurd. The first argument he points out is the idea that nothing humans doing in the present will matter in the distant future‚ or as Nagel says‚ “in a million years” (Nagel 716). People believe that what they do now won’t matter at all in a million years‚ and that they are just one person living in the now that will soon be gone and will therefore not matter and don’t matter
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novel‚ Nausea‚ regarding his views on life’s meaninglessness‚ had been published five years earlier‚ and his existentialist tract‚ Being and Nothingness‚ was about to be released onto the public. As for the younger‚ Camus‚ both his first novel‚ The Stranger‚ and his philosophical piece‚ The Myth of Sisyphus‚ had come out within the previous year to high acclaim (Aronson‚ 2005). Even before the two met‚ they had reviewed each other’s books. Camus had praised Nausea as well as a collection of Sartre’s
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