Human Relations in Camus Novel, The Outsider, from an...

Human relations are very important for any human, and differ from one age to another because of the emerging of different movements across time. The human relations with God, love, society, death etc†¦ are relations that human make to live his life. I study in this paper the human relations in The Outsider novel by Albert Camus from an existentialist view. I want to study Meursault relations who is the main character in Albert Camus’s novel The Outsider , Meursault is being executed because he kills an arab person, but the main reason is that he does not cry at his mother’ funeral and lives his life as there is nothing happened, he goes in the next day to swim and he makes love with his friend Marie and also watch a film. The†¦show more content†¦Unauthentic existence is an uncritical participation in the world as it is; authentic existence consists in an analysis of self. Although distinct, the unauthentic and the authentic life have some common charac teristics: -- Actual participation in the world: this means that the existent being has a relationship to surrounding objects which he uses as instruments of his existence; -- Existence in a determined situation: this means that every situation is essentially individuated, limited and presents only one of the infinite number of possible ways of realizing existence. And the existentialist philosophers consider Meursault as an authentic to himself. We know that the existentialism focuses on the human being how he can makes his being by his decisions, and human must interact with beings around him by many relations and so we find the first relation between human being and other beings is the relation between Meursault and death, and we can see this in the first paper of the novel when he talks about her mother’s death â€Å"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know† (Camus, The Outsider 1) he deals with her mother’s death as an ordinary incident and also he does not appear any feelings or emotions about death, after he arrives to the home he does not want to see his mother and also he does not know anything about her wish to have a religious funeral and she does not know that she had aShow MoreRelatedAbsurdity Between Kafka and Camus4307 Words   |  18 PagesThis paper seeks to compare and contrast the philosophical views of two great philosophers, namely Albert Camus and Franz Kafka. The works involved in this argument are Kafkas The Metamorphosis and Camus The Outsider. The chief concern of both writers is to find a kind of solution to the predicament of modern man and his conflict with machines and scientific theories. Death, freedom, truth and identity are themes to be studies here in the sense of absurdity.    Kafka was born in Prague in 1883.Read MoreLiterary Analysis Of The Stranger By Charles Camus2947 Words   |  12 PagesAlbert Camus’ â€Å"The Guest†. This story centers on a character, an outsider, who is trying to fit into the society in the story. It may not be the fact that the stranger is different in looks, culture, or language like it is in this short story, but it is just the fact that they are not the same, which causes them to be the outsider and fulfill the role of the otherness. As we look through the short story ‘The Guest’, and through the short novel ‘The Stranger’, we can see that Albert Camus is workingRead MoreExistentialism vs Essentialism23287 Words   |  94 Pagestheir lives. Existentialism asserts that â€Å"existence precedes essence,† which is in opposition to the classical doctrine that â€Å"essence precedes existence.† The claim â€Å"existence precedes essence† is a rejection of the idea th at human nature has an end or goal. In this sense, humans are free to choose their own destiny.   * is a philosophical term which asserts that there is a distinction between essential and non-essential (contingent or accidental) characteristics of an object. Essentialism assumesRead More Essay on Camus’ The Stranger (The Outsider): Finding a Rational God through Nature3501 Words   |  15 PagesFinding a Rational God through Nature in Camus The Stranger (The Outsider)    Turning towards nature for fulfillment, The Stranger’s Meursault rejects the ideology of God as a savior and is consequently juxtaposed against Jesus Christ’s martyrdom, Christianity and the infamous crucifixion. To the inexperienced reader, Meursault appears to be an extreme atheist. Later in Albert Camus’ novel, he is revealed as a humanistic soul that’s in touch with the universality of the earth and soil he treads