Existentialism is an extreme, really almost absurdist view that there is no inherent truth or meaning in the universe. ... This declaration comes after Grendel had been stuck in a tree and beat by men, "I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. ... It is important to note his mother can not understand language, it intensifies Grendel as an individual, the only being that matters, "The world resists me and I resist the world,"" I said. ... "I exist, nothing else-'(28). ... I clamped my palms to my e...

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He constantly blames himself for abandoning her, yet does nothing to act upon that emotion. ... This parallel is evidence of his stock character essence that is used to highlight certain existential truths about society. ... As the patient notes in their final interaction: "You were only shaken out from somewhere. ...

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First, the ruling trait of his character is his passion for the absolute truth. While in Meursault this takes the form of a truth of being and feeling, it is still the truth necessary to the conquest of the self or of the world. ... Second, and not unrelated to the first, is Meursault's acceptance of nature as what it is and nothing more, his rejection of the supernatural, including any god. ... Finally and obviously, since the present is his sole milieu, Meursault takes note of each moment of life; since there is no outside value system, no complex future plan, to measure against, and as...

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