Albert Camus’ The Stranger: Meursault Is Aloof‚ Detached‚ and Unemotional In The Stranger‚ Albert Camus portrays Meursault‚ the book’s narrator and main character‚ as aloof‚ detached‚ and unemotional. He does not think much about events or their consequences‚ nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays an impassiveness throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events described in the book. After his mother’s death he sheds no tears; seems
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J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye - Albert Camus: The Stranger /comparison/ Albert Camus’ The Stranger and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye are both among the most important and innovative novels of the twentieth century‚ however it is not the only similarity shared in common by these two masterpieces. The modern world’s general moral change and the individual’s alienation from the society serve as the main‚ basic topic for both novels. The most visible and outright similarity lies
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Plague’s allegorical and metaphysical narrative. Like most human observations‚ we notice the the obvious first‚ before we pull and prod at the exterior to reveal something more ambiguous and at the same time‚ something rather apparent. In the novel‚ Camus‚ “[juxtaposes] […] the symbolical and the realistic‚” creating a polygonal register where the connotative qualities can be discovered when taking into consideration Camus’s style of narration and metaphorical language (Picon‚ 147). Camus’s novel consists
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Running head: HOME READING ASSIGNMENT #2 1 The Stranger by Albert Camus 1. Meursault is locked into the routine of daily existence; his life is a shapeless void without ideas‚ preferences‚ goals‚ or emotions. Like a robot‚ Meursault responds to everything automatically‚ neither feeling nor caring. When he is offered a job transfer to Paris‚ Meursault says he does not care where he works; yet he does not go because moving would be too much trouble. His mother’s
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The Guest by Albert Camus highlights several golden principles of life. For every action there is an opposite or equal reaction. Throughout the story‚ each character has a choice to make that will affect the well-being of others. The freedom of choice is shown through the conflict of the three characters—Daru‚ Balducci‚ and the Arab. Daru has a choice to allow the Arab to choose for himself‚ Balducci has a choice that could result in the loss of employment‚ and the Arab has a choice that may benefit
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“The Guest” explains the different ideals among different people‚ how a man’s morals could forgive or execute another man and his actions. Albert Camus depicts intriguing characteristics through his work of Daru and the Arab uncommon encounter. “The Guest” is a short story that expresses Camus’s attempt to convey the true isolation any human can feel at heart through a sense of absurdity and distress of his characters morals and how someone may truly be guilty of murder or of their own conscience
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* Albert Camus. Born Nov 7‚ 1913‚ in French colonial Algeria. * His father was killed in World War I‚ at the Battle of the Marne. * He lived with his mother‚ and brother sharing a two-bedroom apartment with his grandmother and a paralysed uncle. * He attended the University of Algiers‚ supporting his education by working odd jobs. However‚ he was forced to drop out of school due to ill-health. * The poverty and illness he experienced as a youth greatly influenced his writing.
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Camus’ Attitude to the Absurd in his The Stranger Mahbuba Sultana1 Abstract: Albert Camus (1913-1960) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957 for his important literary production‚ which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times. He was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. The Stranger is indeed
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the writings of “Queen” and Albert Camus Albert Camus was one of the most renowned authors during the early twentieth century. With writings such as The Stranger‚ and The Plague‚ Camus has struck the world of literature with amazing works that are analyzed to a great extent. This amazing success was not just handed to Camus on a silver platter however; Albert endured many hard times and was often encumbered with great illness in his short life. These hardships that Camus had to face‚ emphasized in
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Meursault’s action‚ for many people care too much about societal etiquette. Camus makes the audience ponder about a society with people who are existentialist like Meursault‚ who do not conform to society’s norms and do as they please. Would society be functional because everyone has one’s own selfish purpose in life? Or would society be similar to society now because all outsiders would be the same and are no longer considered strangers rather just
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