We both agree that happiness is the ultimate achievement and purpose in life. However, …show more content…
The importance of knowing about the physical world shapes how a person can find internal and external happiness also how to experience the emotion happiness as a whole. Religious views can also exhibit this opinion on happiness. “It was pleasant; the coffee had warmed me up, and the smell of flowers on the night air was coming through the open door. I think I dozed off for a while.” (1.1.14) Meursault, in his indifference, allows the weather and surroundings to dictate his actions. Overall The Outsider shows Meursault is far more intrigued by the physical aspects of the world around him than in its social or emotional aspects. This focus on the sensate world results from the novel’s belief that there is no higher meaning or order to human life. By letting Meursault dictate his actions by the weather means that he is easily swaded in his judgement. He will do something bad or that will have a negative connotation attached to it and when it 's sunny he will be positive and be an influential person in society. Meursault has a very narrow view causing him not to achieve the meaning of purpose and life. …show more content…
Is there really a meaning of life? What is the point of life? Why should we find happiness? And how do we achieve the meaning of life or better yet, is their actually a meaning of life? “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” A second major component of Camus’s abstract philosophy is that human life has no real meaning or purpose. Camus argues that the only certain thing in life is the inevitability of death, and, because all humans will eventually meet death, all lives are all equally meaningless and The previous quote introduces that exact idea of the meaninglessness of human existence, a theme that resounds throughout the novel.. Paradoxically, only after Meursault reaches this the realisation is he able to attain happiness. When he fully comes to terms with the inevitability of death, he understands that it does not matter whether he dies by execution or lives to die a natural death at an old age. This understanding allows Meursault to put aside his fantasies of escaping execution by filing a successful legal appeal. His liberation from the false hope of humanity means he is free to live life for what it is, and to make the most of the rest of his life. The same can be said but this time he uses