... his usage of dramatic style writing. He intensify the idea of the absurd behaviors and ideas by beginning the novel with "Mother died today .Or, maybe, yesterday; can't be sure (The Stranger, Camus Ch.1). Meursault uses past tense indicating that he is reflecting back to his life and realizing that the irrationality is still there. This is Albert Camus way to shows how the absurd in life is always there. He ... creates situations that not only gives us an idea of the ... ...

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... with them. Raymond takes a gun with him, but Meursault, knowing Raymond had the intent to kill, tells him "take [the Arab] man to man and give me your gun" (56). After a short brawl, Raymond ends up being stabbed by one on the Arabs. Mersualt is forced to take his friend back to the beach house in order to heal his wounds. After some time had ... passed, he goes back to where they had fought the Arabs and finds the one who stabbed Raymond and with no eminent purpose, shoots him once ... and then 4 more times after a brief pause. This event ends the first part of the novel, but begins t...

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... The Stranger Albert Camus wrote The Stranger during the Existentialist movement, which explains why the main character in the novel, Meursault, is characterized as detached and emotionless, two of the aspects of existentialism. In Meursault, Camus creates a character he intends his readers to relate to, because he creates characters placed in realistic situations. He wants the reader to form a changing, ambiguous opinion of Meursault. From what Meursault narrates to the reader in the novel, the ... died, but her death made no real impact on his life other than temporarily disturbing his ...

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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 passion for the truth, which opens the revelation for all humanity: life is absurd; it is man's mortal responsibility ... have an impact on him. Meursault continues to please Raymond with his indifferent attitude to Raymond's social relations by writing a nasty letter to his Arab girlfriend. Meursault d...

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... , Mersault, in Albert Camus" The Stranger, has a detachment from everything in life. He is a private man who lives by himself in an apartment. Mersault accepts life as it comes and is not dynamic enough to change the ways of the world, a characteristic that aids in classifying him as an "absurd man". As he said himself, "I've always been far too much absorbed in the present of the immediate future ... his eyes"(85), yet all he could think about was the stifling hot room and the big flies buzzing around his head. Yet, he says, "I realized it was absurd to feel like this, considering that,...

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