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An Essay onÂ…
The Stranger; The Absurd

Peter Joh
Existentialism
Period 0

"One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
And in the Darkness bind them"
(Lord of the Rings Volume II, The Council of Elrond)

Within the Stranger, Albert Camus brought up many questions and a few answers. He created an outsider to society and showed us how he lived, Meursault.
Meursault was always indifferent. Meursault accepted death. Why? Meursault saw the purpose of life meaningless. That is "Absurdity"! Absurdity, how does that word sound? Pretty bad, eh? Absurdity when used like "that's absurd!" gives the feeling of negative judgment and a sense of finality. The idea of the Absurd seems to attach itself with meaningless, pointless and other such words that express a destination but without the means to get there and vice versa means but no destination. So from there I inferred that Camus does not believe in God nor any high law or universal law that......

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