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Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus

Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....

Albert Camus on Suicide in Myth of Sisyphus

In three pages this paper discusses how in Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus' views on suicide are expressed. One source is cited in ...

Daru's Dilemma 1 in Albert Camus's Short Story, 'The Guest'

In three pages Daru's dilemma and choice to allow the Arab prisoner to select his own destiny are questioned. There are no other ...

Comparison of Elie Wiesel's Night and Albert Camus's The Plague

is not specifically referred to as a chronicle, the narration has a similar "feel" to that of Camus. The narrator is never overtly...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

The Outsider by Albert Camus and Perspective Narrative

a "benign indifference of the universe." This discussion will examine how the narrator, Meursault, aka Camus, gets that message a...

Existentialism, God, and Man’s Purpose

The philosophy of existentialism originated among late nineteenth century philosophers such as Keirkegaard...

Reflections on the Philosophy of Albert Camus

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

Albert Camus and the Theme of Imprisonment

see how the people in this town were essentially imprisoned in their own little useless lives as they went about getting rich, imp...

Marcel Camus' Version of Black Orpheus

In seven pages Camus's interpretation of the play is assessed and compared with the original and discusses how Camus's insights de...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

The Plague by Albert Camus and Human Meaning Struggles

been used, similar to George Orwells "1984" to describe the impact and the reaction of the Nazi invasion on France during World Wa...

Witnessing Events in Albert Camus' The Stranger

his mother and we do not understand what type of relationship they had together. We also begin to understand that he and his mothe...

Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant, and Albert Camus' The Stranger

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

Existentialism and Albert Camus

explanation, and ultimately irrational," but he also "considered life valuable and worth defending. While the American public thou...

Two Narratives on Autonomy and Fate

men see as hostility is in fact only the normal progression of the natural world. At first, they assume that that it is some consc...

The Plague by Albert Camus and the Ethics of Morality and Responsibility

what happens to most of the people who are quarantined in Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, however, is different. The Narrator of the stor...

Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre on Thinking Negatively

diary form, however, there is no hidden agenda necessarily and the individual, Roquentin, is left bare for both the reader and Roq...

Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King Jr., and Albert Camus on Human Nature

is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, doing business" (Camus 4). More and more cases of ill people a...

A Review of The Plague

the plague does exist, but never imagine it in their town, affecting their people: "everybody knows that pestilences have a way of...

Outsiders in Classic Literature

increased recognition and familiarity for the strangeness to be lost....

An Analysis of The Metamorphosis and The Stranger

Gregors father who would rather his son did not exist. And, there is Gregors mother who is of a similar opinion as the father. The...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

Great Minds Discuss Life's Meaning and Purpose

In five pages this paper examines how life's meaning and purpose are viewed by such great thinkers as Albert Camus, Friedrich Niet...

Overview of Modernism in Literature

In five pages literary modernism is defined and then illustrated in such works as James Joyce's 'The Dead' from Dubliners, 'The G...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

The Plague by Albert Camus

This essay concerns Albert Camus' novel "The Plague," which describes the impact of bubonic plague on an Algerian town during the ...

The Stranger and A Cloistered Walk

This paper considers the work of Albert Camus and Kathleen Norris. Key quotes from both works are discussed. There are two sourc...

Nature: Hesse and Camus

teacher in both stories where the path of the character is involved. In the case of Siddhartha he is a young man who constantly ...