The Stranger: Life as a Darkish Light

سال انتشار: 1392
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 28 آذر 1392

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The Stranger or The Outsider is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942.It provides an intriguing insight into the mind one of the twentieth century’s most unconventional philosophers. He wrote The Stranger as an enticement to his readers, to think about their own mortality and the meaning of their existence. Camus urged his readers to look for the dark and the instinctive in his work, the points of concentration where literature, philosophy and life meet, the dimensions in which the universal is interwoven with both the historically specific and the individually unique. For Camus, life has no rational meaning or order, so humans grapple with becoming conscious of the purposeless of existence, and this realization causes one to suffer. It has to unhinge oneself from the desire for life with a meaning, and live amidst the absurdity. We have trouble dealing with this notion and continually struggle to find rational structure and meaning in our lives. This struggle to find meaning where none exists is what Camus calls, the meaninglessness. Therefore, the stronger is our desire for meaning that we dismiss out of hand the idea that there is none to be found. The novel is a first-person account of the life of M. Meursault from the time of his mother's death that is he attends the funeral; he does not request to see the body, though he finds it interesting to think about the effects of heat and humidity on the rate of a body. Meursault, on the other hand, is absolutely certain about his own life and forthcoming death. His rush of anger cleanses him and empties him of hope, thus allowing him finally to open up completely and for the last time to the benign indifference of the universe. He realizes that he always been happy. The central theme is that the significance of human life is understood only in light of mortality, or the fact of death; and in showing Meursault's consciousness change through the course of events, Camus shows how facing the possibility of death does have an effect on one's perception of life. The concepts of this matter death, freeness, meaninglessness, violence are the subject matter of the present paper. In this sense, all human activity is purposeless, and the real freedom is to be aware of life in it’s actually and totally, of its beauty and its pain. This study explores the many forms in which this desire for meaning can consume one’s existence.

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Ismael Jangizahy

Department of English Literature, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd, IRAN

Shahram Afrougheh

Department of English Language and Literature, Post-graduate, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad

Afrouz Yari

Department of English Literature, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd, IRAN