Albert Camus

comfort of home can be a painful occurence yet a rewarding one. The unfamiliar surrounding may make us miss home but will also allow for new experiences. Albert Camus portrays these ideas in his novel, The Stranger, where the protagonist Meursault faces an isolated yet eye-opening exile in prion. Through the detachment from Meursault’s normal life Camus illustrates how meaning can develop through anything. Meursault is thrown into jail after he shoots and kills another man. He at first does not…

Meursault is the main character in The Stranger, a book written by Albert Camus in 1942. The story takes place in Algeria where Meursault is bothered by heat and sunlight, symbols that show his misery. Meursault’s greatest antagonist is himself. The Stranger is Meursault, and he suffers isolation from himself and the world. He lives life with detachment and lack of emotion. The author was born in Algeria and grew up in extreme poverty which influenced his writing of The Stranger. The mood of the…

The title of the novel chosen is The Stranger written by Albert Camus. The setting is centered around the country of Algeria, mainly within the capital Algiers, in the 1940s. The setting proves to be a very significant aspect of the story as it coincides with the culture within it. During the point of time in which the novel takes place, a large amount of French influence can be found due to its status as a French colony. The most obvious cultural element prevalent within the literary work is…

an effect on your mood and your actions. However, for Mersault, the main character from Albert Camus’ The Stranger, the effect that nature has on him is so tremendous that it influences him to commit the irrational murder of an Arab. Camus uses literary techniques and devices when describing Mersault’s killing of the Arab to highlight the extraordinary effect that Mersault’s physical stimuli have on him. Camus does so using imagery, similes, personification, and juxtaposition. It is important to…

When someone goes against this involuntarily adopted policy, they are seen as different. In The Stranger by Albert Camus, the reader is exposed to the judgments and differences of the main character, Meursault, from society. By Camus’ usage of stylistic techniques and symbolism, Meursault is characterized through the toils and setting around the life of a stranger. Beginning his novel, Camus uses the absence of a name to introduce the reader to the story. In the first sentence, the reader is…

The philosopher Albert Camus paints and bleak picture of the human existence, saying that our lives have no meaning and are, as a consequence absurd, because all our efforts are futile and hopeless. However, if we can accept that choice is intrinsic to a thinking being, then we can admit to ourselves that everything we do, no matter how insignificant, possesses some meaning and it gives our existence purpose. There are two certainties in life deduced by the thinking of Rene Descartes; one is…

French-Algerian columnist, Albert Camus was otherwise called a dramatist, writer, philosophical writer, and Nobel laureate. Born on 7 November, 1913 in French Algeria, Camus started his abstract vocation as a political writer, and additionally an on-screen character, chief and dramatist in his local place, Algeria. Later on, he wound up plainly required in the Resistance, as France in those days was involved amid the Second World War and after this amid the era of 1944-47; he likewise filled in…

Albert Camus is an Algerian-born French author and philosopher. Camus is widely known to be the father of Absurdism, the rejection of a purpose in a meaningless world. One of his very first works, The Stanger, is centered on absurdity. The Stanger is a story about an Algerian clerk who commits murder, but, strangely enough, he is convicted because of his apathy towards his mother’s death. Using his beliefs and experience in poverty/life, Camus demonstrates that the world of The Stranger is…

The stranger by Albert Camus is a philosophical novel published in 1942.The book’s theme and outlook are credited to be a prime example of Camus's philosophy of the absurd and existentialism.The main protagonist of the book is Meursault who is a French Algerian (a citizen of France who lives in north Africa yet one who hardly partakes in the traditional Mediterranean culture).Meursault is emotionally removed from the world he lives in. Important events that occur leave no impact on him,and do…

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 acts so…