The Stranger

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…

THEATRE OF THE ABSURD BY ALBERT CAMUS Background An existentialist philosopher Albert Camus, wrote an essay “The Myth of Sisyphus”. This essay was published in 1942. In this essay Camus described human existence and called it to be “without any purpose: absurd”. Other writers of that era related to his work and subscribed to his work. These writers than wrote their own thoughts on the subject and their writing were named as Theatre of Absurd. There was no such thing as an Absurdist crusade…

turned his head and lifted his chin toward the pair of strangers. “Saw them when we came in. Who are they? What business have they up here?” said Gaurn softly. He leaned against the end of the bar so he could take the measure of the strangers without being rude. Durf brought his sweets and stood between Gaurn and Janden leaving Rose standing on the other side of Janden. He wanted to be one of the men and not a child staying with the women. The strangers had their cloaks pulled close with the…

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…

The Stranger by Albert Camus is a book that teaches a philosophical point of view on the meaning of life. The story is about a man referred to as Monsieur Meursault, who believes life is meaningless. Meursault is informed of his mother who had passed away and went to attend her funeral. He gives us details of why he feels life is meaningless by showing no emotion or remorse about the passing of his mother. He isn’t seen sobbing or bawling his eyes out for his mother and even refuses to see his…

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…

The Stranger In the novel, The Stranger, Albert Camus discusses the absurdity of death through the novel’s protagonist, Meursault. The progressional characterization of Meursault, after the passing of his mother, reveals the insignificant value death possesses, while emphasizing the inevitability of death and momentary happiness. Within the plot, the theme of mortality is highly emphasized through three different deaths: Meursault’s mother, the murder of the Arab by the hand of Meursault, and…

Absurdity in The Outsider Albert Camus, one of the eminent French novelist, essayist and playwright is often considered as a nihilist, or extreme absurdist who believes that life is senseless and useless. ‘The Outsider’, Camus’s first novel is a representation of his absurd thinking about the world. The use of the term ‘absurd’ in literature is a vehicle for writers to explore and represent those elements in the world that do not make sense and ‘The Outsider’ is one of the beautiful…

While reading The Picture of Dorian Gray first thing that came into my mind is how shallow and vain someone can be, and at the same time pretend everything is normal. Dorian Gray, the protagonist of the novel is exactly that: self-loving, egotistic young man who is not capable of making out good from evil. Maybe it would be more proper to say that he does not want to acknowledge his misbehaviour even though he is aware of it. This corrupt demeanor of his naturally brings out immorality in all…

Philosopher, Joseph P. Carter, in his opinion article, “The Universe Doesn’t Care About Your ‘Purpose’”, explains that our existence does not matter in the world.Carter’s purpose is to explain how people hold no importance at all to the universe, only towards each other. He adopts a thoughtful and sentimental tone in order to convince his studious readers. Carter argues that the universe sees no purpose in individuals. In page three of The Universe Doesn’t Care About Your ‘Purpose’, author…