That hero and anti-hero are opposing terms, one will not argue. However, the definitions of the two, and therefore the qualities they encompass, come straightway with arguments. Beowulf and The Stranger are two works with protagonists that can be argued as lying on either end of the hero spectrum. Beowulf can be said to demonstrate ...
Chance is a force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled. Taking responsibility for chance seems like a ridiculous thing to do because it happens without human intentions. However, taking responsibility for these chances is a key idea in existentialism. In The Stranger, by Albert Camus, the main character, Meursault, is faced ...
“But at least I had as much of a hold on it as it had on me. I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn’t done that. I ...
The Stranger is the story of a man who is completely indifferent to life and all that’s around him. Meursalt finds out that his mother dies and doesn’t really seem to care. He’s not happy she’s dead, but he’s not sai either. Marie, his girlfriend, loves him and wants to marry him and he says ...
Too much analysis of friendship can only leave one without much trust for the friends they have. Once we begin to question who our friends are, what their intentions are and why they are our friends, the mind is filled with doubt and suspicion. Though, let’s do it anyway. While it may be in our ...
Passage from The Stranger by Albert Camus: At the same instant the sweat in my eyebrows dripped down over my eyelids all at once and covered them with a warm, thick film. My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. All I could feel were the cymbals of sunlight crashing on my ...
Shortly after he published The Stranger in 1942, Camus also published a philosophical essay titled The Myth of Sisyphus later in the same year. Unlike The Stranger which was seen by many to be almost typical of other existentialist writings, yet contained ideas indicative of the theory of Absurdism only to a subliminal extent, this ...
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus Easy for him to say; he doesn’t have to rake your yard. Fortunately, you can take a few leaves out of commission, and turn them in to a great project for your kids. If you’re looking for something more organized then ...
In The Stranger, some of the most significant events, for example, awakenings, discoveries, changes in consciousness, are mental or psychological. Albert Camus manages to give Meursault’s internal events the sense of suspense and climax associated with external action through stream of consciousness, the narrator’s conflict with other characters and subtle inferences into existentialism and absurdity. ...
Having attained the status of an absurdist through the publishing of his philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus, all that was left to do is even further develop Camus’ theory of absurdism, yet through an indirect means which invokes reflection and thought. Camus wrote The Plague, his second novel, which was published in 1947. The ...
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