Existentialist Darwism and Neo-isolationist Rejection in Camus' "The Stranger"
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An enlightening, introspective analysis of Existentialism as a philosophy and as an integral component of Camus' literary genre. WOW!
Camus's The Stranger is a grim profession that choice and individual freedom are
integral components of human nature, and the commitment and responsibility that accompany
these elements are ultimately the deciding factors of the morality of one's existence. Meursault
is placed in an indifferent world, a world that embraces absurdity and persecutes reason; such is
the
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as Meursault confronts his nothingness and the impossibility of justifying the [immoral] choices he has made; he realizes the pure contingency of his life, and that he has voided, in essence, his own existence by failing to accept the risk and responsibility that the personal freedom of an existentialist reality entails. 1 From Don Quixote (1605, trans. 1612), a satirical Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. 2 Soren Kierkegaard, Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher, on 'Moral Individualism and Truth.'
as Meursault confronts his nothingness and the impossibility of justifying the [immoral] choices he has made; he realizes the pure contingency of his life, and that he has voided, in essence, his own existence by failing to accept the risk and responsibility that the personal freedom of an existentialist reality entails. 1 From Don Quixote (1605, trans. 1612), a satirical Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. 2 Soren Kierkegaard, Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher, on 'Moral Individualism and Truth.'