Have you ever wondered about life? What is the true meaning of living and what lies beyond in the afterlife. As such, we sometimes wonder about these absurd things which are in fact part of our everyday life. The question “Is there any meaning to life” have been an occurring central topic in which Albert Camus have been trying to get to the readers about. In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, Meursault the main character, doesn’t fit in with the rest of the people as he doesn’t experience any emotions or have a care of what he is doing with his life. Meursault wants to know the meaning of living and to know is there more to life than just the existence of human beings. Through Meursault’s emotionless journey and viewpoint in life, we learn from him that life really doesn’t any meaning, is very absurd, and it’s just mortality and death.
One example that Camus shows us about the meaning of life is that it just doesn’t have any true no meaning. There is no way out of it. “She said, "If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church." She was right. There was no way out ” (Camus 1.1.27). This quote shows us that whether you accept the fact or not that we are all gonna die one day, but we are human and we were all …show more content…
Absurdity is in the human nature as often times we have this tendency to try to find value and meaning in our lives “I said that people never change their lives, that in any case, one life was as good as another and that I wasn’t dissatisfied with mine here at all” (Camus 1.5.3). This quote shows that people hate change and you nor they can change one's course of life. Though this belief of hopelessness surrounds human existence and change. So what's the point Every person's life is equal to one another’s so there is no point in changing their lives or even your own? Everyone’s death will be the
One example that Camus shows us about the meaning of life is that it just doesn’t have any true no meaning. There is no way out of it. “She said, "If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church." She was right. There was no way out ” (Camus 1.1.27). This quote shows us that whether you accept the fact or not that we are all gonna die one day, but we are human and we were all …show more content…
Absurdity is in the human nature as often times we have this tendency to try to find value and meaning in our lives “I said that people never change their lives, that in any case, one life was as good as another and that I wasn’t dissatisfied with mine here at all” (Camus 1.5.3). This quote shows that people hate change and you nor they can change one's course of life. Though this belief of hopelessness surrounds human existence and change. So what's the point Every person's life is equal to one another’s so there is no point in changing their lives or even your own? Everyone’s death will be the