... part of life; accepting oneself or what the future holds in store can be both confusing and difficult. Acceptance of the future seems nearly impossible to achieve, especially when one's life or happiness is at stake. In both The Stranger by Albert Camus and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Meursault and Gregor, the doomed main characters, accept their fate because of their own mental pressures on themselves, their physical ... limitations, and the way society judges them. Both Meursault and Gregor force themselves to accept their fates in their own minds. ... his death in order to be ...

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