Saturday, October 29, 2016
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Existentialism is a philosophical system which emphasizes the significance of existence and those actions which enable one to experience their give birth existence, such as devising decisions or feeling emotions. The story The Stranger was written during the existentialist philosopher movement, and thats why the trail computer address in the novel, Meursault, has a neutral and emotionless character because objectivity is the main shot of existentialism. The Stranger, can be analyse with the themes of fatuousness, mans birth with life, society, god, and free- willing. The novel conveys many modellings of the absurdity of the human condition. While read the novel, firstly it is noniced that Meursault shows no affection after he hears more or less his mom dying. He receives a telegram. Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I dont know. I got a telegram from the home: commence Deceased. Funeral Tomorrow. Faithfully yours. (Camus 3). When he gets home, he makes himself a c offee and smokes. He doesnt even tantalise to see the dead carcass or mourn. Instead of grieving, he seems more worried most the time he will take to go to his stupefys funeral. Although Meursault has no emotions, he has a girlfriend named Marie. In their human relationship, Meursault mainly focuses on the carnal features of her rather than her characteristics. When he negotiation ab out Marie, it is mostly about her appearance. I wanted her so bad You could make out the shape of her firm breasts... (Camus 34). When Marie asks him to follow her, he says that he does non love her, but he would marry her to make her happy. Their relationship portrays a good prototype of existentialism philosophy. Another example is the murder. Meursault kills the Arab on the beach not because he threatened him, he did not seem to infliction with that, but because the sunlight rush him on his eye so he got angry and killed the Arab brutally. The sear blade slashed at my eyelashes and stabbed at my stinging eye�...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment