Stranger than Fiction

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…

The author of The Stranger, Albert Camus, was born in 1913 in Mondavi, French Algeria. His father died early in his life, so he lived with his half-deaf mother. He married two women when he was young, but divorced them both shortly after. He did very well in school and continued on into university. He also completed some military service and had a short political career as well. As far as his literary work goes, Camus wrote novels, plays, and even performed with the theater. He was awarded…

Albert Camus’ The Stranger reflects his existentialist philosophy. The novel follows Meursault’s point of view as he develops his perception of the world throughout the novel. In the first half of the novel, Meursault is purely subjective to the world around him; he is detached and emotionless. However, as the novel progresses, Meursault is faced with death, which evolves him to become introspective. The novel delineates that the turning point of the existential character, Meursault, is his…

selling food and drinks—more drinks than food. Durf could see the steep thatched roof and whitewashed wattle and daub walls…

front of the coffin. He then encounters Marie, a former employee of his firm. “There is not love of life without despair about life.” “Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.” ― Albert Camus, The Stranger ― Albert Camus, The Stranger The two become closer, go swimming, watch a comedy movie, and begin to have a sexual relationship, even tho that his mother's funeral took place the day before. In the next few days, he helps his friend and neighbour, Raymond…

Novel Notebook: The Stranger 1. Setting/Matter: The Stranger by Albert Camus, is set in Algeria in the 1940’s. The setting is important to the story, because it sets the stage for….. 2. Plot: The story is about a man named Monsieur Meursault. In the first part of the book, it is revealed that he recently lost his mother. After her funeral, he returns to his normal routine of life, and he even gets a girlfriend, named Marie, and a new friend named Raymond. They all go to a beach one afternoon,…

Albert Camus uses the story, The Guest, to answer how the landscape and setting around civilization can demonstrate human’s absurdity. This absurdity is the ability of man to find a purpose in a world that neither knows nor cares that man exists. The moral dilemma imposed on Daru in the story highlights the essence of the absurd condition of the world and how it forces onto Daru a situation beyond his control, regardless of his moral attitude. In Daru’s land, drought is followed by snow and,…

Meursault from The Stranger and Truman from The Truman Show are characters from two different stories which display strong themes of existentialism. Existentialism is the mysterious idea that people determine the development of their own lives by their own choices and that life is absurd. The Stranger is about a peculiar man, Meursault, who strongly seems to believe these themes of existentialism. On the other hand, in The Truman Show, the main character, Truman, is trapped in an existentialist…

Upon reading The Myth of Sisyphus I have never heard of any mention of this myth. At first, I found it very hard to follow along with what the author was saying. Everything seemed very metaphorical and symbolic, but was so wordy that I had to reread it a few times in small sections in order to fully digest it. When I read the third paragraph about Sisyphus wanting to test his wife’s loyalty I thought wow that is a horrible idea. What I did not understand was why Sisyphus wanted to chastise his…

Albert Camus once explained that “Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic” (“Albert Camus Quote”), and the latter is certainly true for the protagonist, Meursault, of his novel The Stranger. In the novel, Camus uses his protagonist, through characterization and diction, to support his absurdist philosophy. Absurdism is the concept that humanity must survive in a world that is constantly hostile or indifferent towards them (Absurdism). Although Camus is famous for…