Albert Brooks

The Development of Marie as a Foil in Camus’ The Stranger In The Stranger, Albert Camus utilizes stylistic and structural elements in order to portray the character of Meursault as exemplifying absurd philosophical ideas and behavior. Many of the minor characters in the novel have storylines that simply serve to emphasize such traits in the novel. The most prominent example of this is the use of Meursault’s reconnection and subsequent romance with a former typist in his office, Marie Cardona.…

facts or evidence, but I think Existential and absurdist beliefs are expressed in images within novels through emotions and descriptive features that allow the reader to imagine the situation. This is highly demonstrated in the book: the stranger, by Albert Camus, because the protagonist is an existentialist with absurdist beliefs. Meursault has an absurdist outlook on life and also in events that are “supposed” to be really important to the extent that, it breaks people; However, Meursault…

Albert Einstein created a whole new universe of curiosity and discovery through research, experiments, and countless years of dedication to science. Throughout the years of his life, he faced many trials and failures, but those helped him set the foundations for many inventions and findings in the science community. Albert Einstein was an amazing scientist with a curious childhood and an extraordinary adult life, filled with discoveries and findings that ended up impacting science in several…

Promoting well-being is vital in the aspect of trying to become happy. So, regardless of how happy a person is in their life, nearly everyone has room for improvement. Therefore, assessing overall well-being is done by evaluating how satisfied an individual is with the variety domains of their life. So how do we specifically measure our well-being? We do so with two concepts: bottom-up and top-down theory. When perceiving the bottom-up theory, the individual will focus on changing the…

As discussed in Erikson’s stage of development, a stage is complete once the individual has achieved their crisis or in this case once the adolescent has achieved a healthy identity. As it relates to adolescents in foster care, youth have impaired self-identity due to outside forces, thus allowing the youth to have no control over their own environment. Such forces like social media make it hard for others to view these particular individuals in a positive light. Previous stigmas created by…

The Stranger, Albert Camus’ debut novel, illustrates and reflects the view of absurdity of life using the main character, Meursault, as a catalyst. On a surface level, absurdism is perceived through Meursault alone. However, on a deeper level through Meursault, other characters act as a source of absurdity as different situations are forced upon them. Camus achieves this level of complexity by creating and establishing Meursault as a very absent and undistinguished main character, who holds no…

1204 What is the function of societal expectations within the confines of the text? Within Albert Camus’ The Stranger, a variance of societal expectations are seen, such as mandatory religion to strange conditioned behaviors. The purpose of these societal expectations within the text is to cultivate a characterization of Meursault and show how that characterization reinforces the existentialist and absurdist concepts present. Throughout the text, there are a multitude of situations in which…

The Importance of Play There is a serious need for pay for infants and toddlers. Play is the foundation for all other learning (Lawrence). When child get to play they are able to develop skills on their own and explore the world around them. When kids have free play this helps them become socially adapt, cope with stress, and build cognitive skills such as problem solving (Lawrence). These are important skills to have and develop at a young age so we will be able to use them through the rest of…

Analysis A multi-dimensional approach to human development and behaviour is beneficial in social work and human services practice as the human condition, and all human experience, is multifaceted and complex. Current knowledge and awareness of social and psychological theories is highly important as well as it must inform decision making in direct practice. This paper will discuss Tony’s inner and outer world, according to Harms (2010), in order to analyse his behaviour with consideration to…

In The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud, takes off from where Camus’ The Stranger leaves us. He explores the aftermath of that book. While Camus’ story takes place from the point of view of the French in Algeria, Daoud’s story looks at the Arab experience and its result, the main characters wind up in much the same place. It could be that Daoud is telling us that not only are the European and Arabs much alike, there paths will eventually lead them to the same place, despite all their…