The Stranger Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Camus' The Stranger.

The Stranger Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Camus' The Stranger.
This section contains 2,005 words
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Camus' The Stranger: Meursault's Apathy

Summary: In The Stranger, by Albert Camus, Meursault's character is apathetic and insensitive to the events in his own life and those around him. Elements of the plot line are analyzed to support this point.
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Life has been defined as the property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism. Further, that very definition from the Webster's dictionary says nothing when it comes to the everyday experiences one faces throughout a lifetime. The experiences one faces makes, breaks, and shapes us into how we act and live. T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" portrays a world in which humans lack connections to each other and to G-d. Similarly, the main character, Meursault, from the short novel The Stranger, by Albert Camus, represents a man who does not feel any condition to anyone or anything. Meursault seems not to have a sense of emotion for the occurring actions in his life, and as a result...

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