Albert Camus And Herman Hesse – Comparing Both “The Outsider” To “Siddhartha”
Albert Camus and Herman Hesse – Comparing both “The Outsider” to “Siddhartha”
Both Albert Camus and Herman Hesse express their critical view on the world and society in “The Outsider” and “Siddhartha” respectively, using an appeal to absurdity and “the ridiculous” as a mainstream for their analytical commentaries. Therefore both pieces of literature share similarities where most of these can be found by close-reading the chapters "Among the people" and "Samsara", and comparing them to Camus. This can be done by contrasting various explicitly evident themes like reference to absurdist aspects, reference to surrealism and a metaphysical divine world and the analysis of characters and how they react towards other characters.
In Albert Camus’ “The Outsider”, Mersault, the protagonist, lives off physical and momentary pleasures and sensations. It is very clear that all he looks for in his life is “observing Marie’s breasts” and smoking Cigarettes or......
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