A look at the absurdity of society's values when justice is based on prejudice in Albert Camus' "The Stranger- and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold."" Both "Chronicle of a Death Foretold- by Gabriel Garcí Marquez and "The Stranger- by Albert Camus depict the ritualistic death of a character in order to portray the absurdity of society's values through the use of unconventional justice. ... Albert Camus' character Meursault is put through a prejudiced trial after he commits the murder of an Arab man. ... "The Stranger- by Albert Ca...

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Albert Camus est un ecrivain trés célebre surtout pour ses idees d'existentialisme. ... Camus présent Meursault comme anti-heros pour ses actions immorales et ses ideés apathiques. ... Camus a dépeint ce qui arriverait à un homme qui refusait de se conformer aux reglements de la société. ... Camus implique que Meursault est une victime d'un monde complexe et indifférent qui ne l'entend pas ses idees. ... Albert Camus a créé un personnage complexe et mystérieux. ...

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"The Outsider," also known as "The Stranger," is a novel by Albert Camus that was published in 1942. ... Throughout the novel, Camus focuses strongly on the fundamental values of society, and how society tolerates people who do not conform to these values. Camus achieves this by incorporating aspects of existentialist philosophy in the novel. ... Camus feels that one exists only in the world physically and therefore the presence or absence of meaning in one's life is alone revealed through that event which he or she is experiencing at a particular moment. ...

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The Stranger by Albert Camus is a story about an ordinary man who unwittingly is drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. The book is written in two parts and each part reflects upon the actions occurring in the other. The book is revolved around the main character, Meursault. Meursaul...

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In The Outsider Albert Camus develops Meursault as an existential hero, to promote the theme of being different than the majority of society. ... I said I didn't mind" (Camus 33). ... I told her that it didn't mean anything but I didn't think so" (Camus 38). ... I offered the caretaker a cigarette and we smoked" (Camus 14). ... I replied as I had done once already (Camus 44). ...

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Albert Camus's novel, The Stranger, is no exception to this rule. In Camus's novel, Christians are presented as using their faith as a crutch on which they rely with no other explanation for their belief other than the fact that without it, their lives would be meaningless, similar to that of Meursault. ...

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I think that according to this definition, in the book The Stranger, by Albert Camus, the character Meursault, does not act with integrity. ... Camus's character was never really known by anyone. ...

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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. ... When Meursault says, "The fact was that it had been decided once and for all that the patient was to die" (Camus 111), he mentally accepts the fact that he can allow himself no hope and that there is no chance of escaping his inevitable death. ...

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Albert Camus" prose used in the passage illustrates the strain the physical world places on Meursault, as well as the contrast between his former life, and his new life after the murder. ... Camus" use of diction allows the reader to feel the overwhelming effect the environment has on an Algerian beach, and the inert feeling Meursault experiences immediately after forever changing his life. ...

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In The Stranger, by Albert Camus, Meursault undergoes a mental transformation from Part 1 to Part 2. ... In The Stranger, by Albert Camus, Meursault undergoes a mental transformation from Part 1 to Part 2. ...

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Meursault is a man who will not lie to himself. In Albert Camus" The Stranger, his actions and reactions display him as an immoral man, expressing apathy towards society's formulas for convention. He will not feign emotion, nor use religion as a vehicle to give his life meaning. Meursault has a ...

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The opening lines of the novel, The Outsider by Albert Camus, set the tone for the book: Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know (pg. 9), it is a dreary and depressing sentence, so are the thoughts of a character by the name of Meursault. However, the circumstances that took place, plung...

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Ethical and moral are the important theories for a normal society to judgments a person. In The Stranger, by Albert Camus, is a French novel about a man who does not follow the typical standards of society. Meursault who is the main protagonist in the novel experiences his mother death, meets a love...

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