Albert Camus is a literary artist, he was born in Algeria in the year 1913. ... Albert Camus dedicated his life and writings to discover the purpose of mans existence. ... Camus published his novel The Stranger, to provide an example of the absurd. ... His aim was to reduce the sum total of human suffering (Albert Camus: A Study of His Work, Philip Thody). ... This is Albert Camus way to shows how the absurd in life is always there. ...

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In The Stranger, Albert Camus uses Mersault and his experiences to convey the philosophy that man is full of anxiety and despair with no meaning in his life except for simple existence. ... Camus uses the death of Mersault's mother to convey his existentialistic philosophy. ... Thus, Albert Camus illustrates the absurdities of life in The Stranger, with the actions of Mersault to portray his existentialist beliefs. ... Camus characterizes Mersault as the ultimate representation of existentialism. ... Mersault is a true stranger in his world. ...

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The character of Meursault is Camus' representation of the absurd man. ... Camus is telling the reader that life is too unpredictable for harmony to be achieved, the universe works for and against you simultaneously. Marie, to me is Camus' representation of what love and attraction is. ... Laws are supposed to help and benefit us, but from Camus' absurd view, law hinders a free existence. ... Meursault's rejection of Religion is how Camus feels about traditional, conformist norms. ...

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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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In the story "The Stranger," by Albert Camus, the belief that "the themes of loss and retrieval are at the core of Mersault's mythology and that they illumine the notion of exile to which he returns so often" is widely discussed. ... That was his belief, and if he were to ever doubt it, his life would be meaningless" (Camus pg. 69). ... " (Camus pgs. 122-123). ... Mersault made himself a stranger to the world he lived in. ... When one constantly reads phrases such as: I don't know, I don't care, I don't believe, etc. the person saying those phr...

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The main character, 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 h...

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Existentialism is defined as a philosophical movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom and choice that influence many diverse writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. The actual term "existentialism" came from Jean Paul Sartre, a French philosopher. He combined the theories of t...

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Mersault of Albert Camus" The Stranger and Raskolnikov of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment follow similar [existentialist] moral codes that regulate their attitudes toward death and religion. ... (Camus 3) These words spoken by Mersault imply that it does not matter to Mersault when she died. ... (Camus 83) Mersault noted this nonchalantly as he entered the court under the eyes of the jury as though he was an omnipotent observer of the universe. ... (Camus 123) His audacity knows no bounds; moreover, he shows no recognition of the solemnity of human existence or the preserv...

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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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