They introduce Meursault's emotional indifference, one his most important character traits. Meursault does not express any remorse upon learning of his mother's death "he merely reports the fact in a plain and straightforward manner. His chief concern is the precise day of his mother's death "a seemingly trivial detail.
This possible reading introduces the idea of the meaninglessness of human existence, a theme that resounds throughout the novel.
The nurse speaks these words to Meursault during the long, hot funeral procession in Part One, Chapter 1. On a literal level, the nurse's words describe the dilemma the weather presents: the heat's influence is inescapable. But Meursault's comment, "There was no way out,"" broadens the implications of the nurse's words. As Meursault eventually realizes, the nurse's words describe the human condition: man is born into a life that can only end in death. Death, like the harsh effects of the sun, is unavoidable. This idea is central to Camus's philosophy in The Stranger, which posits death as the one central, inescapable fact of life.
Meursault relates an exchange he has with Marie. With characteristic emotional indifference and detachment, Meursault answers Marie's question completely and honestly. Always blunt, he never alters what he says to be tactful or to conform to societal expectations. However, Meursault's honesty reflects his ignorance. His blunt words suggest that he does not understand fully the emotional stakes in Marie's question. Also, in Meursault's assertion that love "didn't mean anything,"" we see an early form of a central idea Meursault later comes to understand "the meaninglessness of human life.
Strange Fruit is perhaps the greatest poem and song ever written in American history. ... "Southern trees bear a strange fruit", is the first line of this poem. The word strange is the first word that hits you. ... He just says "Strange fruit swinging from the poplar trees". ... Almost like this is not strange but the most natural thing in the world. ...
I really shouldn't talk about this, but then I realize I'm an Aries and I thrive on the adrenaline I get from doing things I shouldn't. They say that if you search hard enough for something it will find you. In the Spring of 1995, I met this really wierd woman at a coffeehouse that I hang out at. ...
In the dark poem "Strange Fruit," author Joy Harjo, explores the difficulties that minorities in the world. ... If one is familiar with the song, strange fruit, by Billie Holiday; one would get a sense as to what to expect from the poem, which is that it involves lynching (Execution usually by hanging, without trial). ... Unlike the song by Billie Holiday, also called 'Strange Fruit', Joy Harjo does not identify the 'strange fruit' in question, as a symbol of racial injustice. Instead, she beautifies this strange fruit making it the opposite of a fruit symbolizing de...
"White Angel" is the story of the sixties. The period where the most important thing to many people were sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. The idea of right and wrong are no longer viewed as absolutes; there is no right except that which is pleasurable or makes them feel good. "White Angel" is a refer...
This paper will give a review of the book titled The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ... He is most known for The Strange Career of Jim Crow which was published in 1955. ... Going against the belief that the Jim Crow laws was solely a result of southern white racism, in The Strange Career of Jim Crow, the author argues how there were many components involved in not only the emergence of the Jim Crow laws but also the acceptance of them. ...
The poem "Strange Fits of Passion have I known" published by William Wordsworth in 1800 has seven stanzas of four lines each and is composed of the rhyming scheme a-b-a-b. ... In "Strange Fits of Passion have I known" the narrator shows a strong passionate and sympathetic tone relating to the poems romanticism. The first stanza ("STRANGE fits of passion have I known: And I will dare to tell, But in the Lover's ear alone, What once to me befell.... In the first line the words "strange fits of passion have I known" are used, this reflects the poets feeli...
A very Strange Town In the east cost of Nova Scotia there was a small village ignored from the population that was until this day. The small town had no name. The city was ruled by a single eyed scientist, no one knew exactly what was going on, the citizen who lived their didn't even about the...
Duality in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. "We should not live alternately with our opposing tendencies in continual see - saw of passion and disgust, but seek some path on which the tendencies shall no longer oppose, but serve each other to common end." (Osbourne, Vol 24, 208) Duality...
First, he finds himself a stranger in a strange miniature land of miniature people. Secondly, Gulliver finds himself a stranger in a strange land of giants. ... The stranger in a strange land motif follows Gulliver as he travels from one strange land to the next. ... The second example of satire in this strange land ridicules humanity. ... In every world, Gulliver finds himself a stranger in a new strange land. ...
