Choices lead our lives In a sense, individuals are sentenced to make decisions. One may endeavor to deliberately "solidify" and unshakably decline to settle on decisions, however, even this technique would consider something that one has attempted. Decisions made, whether terrible or great, tail you perpetually and influence everybody in their way somehow. It is our choices that decide our encounters. The decisions we are making today will appear in our experiences later on. We take individuals to constitute an imperative piece of their identity through the decisions they embrace. In other words, we take ourselves to act naturally constituting specialists, creators of our lives. In this essay, I will demonstrate the differentiation between …show more content…
He regrets his choices such as; gambling, womanizing, drinking and not writing who he was, and what he has experienced during his adventurous life. Harry chose to live a hedonistic lifestyle, at the expense of his ethical and professional obligations. Everyone should aim to increase their pleasure, but few can do so by only concentrating on their inner selves. “It is the creed … of the nobility of the pursuit of pleasure-seeking. However, even the most selfish hedonists face the problem of how to balance their pleasure (for example, eating cream cakes) against their own later pain (for example, feeling a bit sick).” (“Hedonism” 1). Harry had the freedom to choose that way of living, but he was not free from the after effect of his choices. This lifestyle prevented him from his “obligations” as a writer. Among others, Harry witnessed Greco-Turk war, while he was a reporter. He remembers Bulgaria: the …show more content…
He wakes up, occupies his time in a café nearby and his apartment. Friends visit, and they leave. The next day he gets up again, eats, goes to work, comes back home, and sleeps. This routine day by day. However, many can refer to this lifestyle, nevertheless most of us have goals, purposes, and significance in life. On the other hand, Meursault is different, he is portrayed as someone who fills his days with basic redirections while decimating all importance and significance of each action. He does not seek for purpose and meaning in actions he takes, since these concepts are unfamiliar to him. He does not have a reason for choosing something, over something else. He does not engage sentiments or thoughts that many people appreciate, enjoy and gladden. This character describes best the idea of the Absurd. “Humans cannot avoid wondering about life, and its meaning, since that is how we are. However Camus says that, there is no answer for this question. In between the question, Camus states, does life have a meaning, and the answer is silence, it lies The Absurd. It is something so strange and so bizarre that it defies that definition.”(Class notes Nov.2016)….. Meursault uses simplistic, and casual dialogue from the beginning of novella, therefore he does not reflect any vantage, does not contemplate about religion, soul, or the universe. Albert Camus presents to the reader a character with day by day
Have you ever wondered why life was created and what your purpose is? Well, you probably have, you just don’t remember it. We ask ourselves a variety of questions every day. It might be a simple or hard question you are facing throughout the day, but the answer is the main thing you need to remember. The meaning of life is more than just a simple question like the others we ask ourselves.
From the moment we wake up in the morning till we go back to sleep, decision-making is an indispensable part of our life. Some choices may seem insignificant, like what to wear or what to eat for breakfast, while others may have significant impacts on our lives and even others, like choosing a life partner, a place to live, or the way we interact with others. Although choices can be empowering, allowing us to take control of our lives and shape our future, however, if the wrong choice was made, it could have negative consequences. Sometimes people would choose to obey others and avoid making choices themselves when they are scared and cowardly. However, the decision of not making a choice is a choice itself, indeed, it could even be the worst
Belonging to a being much bigger than yourself can sometimes make the world seem entirely easier to deal with and get through but on the other hand it can sometimes cripple the individual to a point where their life is nothing but a meaningless cycle of living for the larger being than with it. This can be seen in no better light than in William Faulkner’s classic telling of “Barn Burning” where the author utilizes point of view and character development to help his readers understand and care for the story’s theme. That theme being that belonging to something much bigger than yourself is not always a great thing if you have to loss yourself in order to be a part of it. Faulkner established the foundation on which he is meant to build his theme upon by introducing his readers to the Snopes family, a family of seven that is “lead” or in this case mislead by their crazed and misguided patriarch Abner Snopes who’s common disregard for others and inability to let things go has turned his family into followers without a voice and has led to them literally burning their bridges in the past.
In accordance with the tenants of existentialism, Albert Camus puts forth a cogent argument in proposition of the fact that life is in fact out of our control. In truth, one’s
Meursault's indifferent attitude seems to work for him as a way to just get through his life and pass all of his thoughts on life’s
No matter how ordinary a human being could be, no one has lived their entire life in someone’s shoe. Everyone stumbles upon different decisions in life, causing different but unique life experiences. However, one’s life can only be changed with one’s decision. Life is about making decisions, whether it’s right or wrong, it all comes from the decision maker.
Meursault constantly has varying thoughts dancing around his mind, one of which is the environment. The environment is behind all of Meursault’s struggles and problems in his mental world and interferes with his physical world as well, causing him to think that the world is irrational. Holden’s attitude toward the world is particularly similar to Meursault’s because nihilism and absurdism are quite similar. Both believe that the world is irrational and out to get them. The only difference between the two is that Meursault discovers that even though he believes that the world manipulated him and demanded to kill the
A person with free will has complete control over its destiny. If one denies wrongdoing and flees from moral responsibility, that person will just be building all of the different consequences up until they are no longer manageable. However, if one faces the mistakes made, they can overcome their past and shape their future. The fatalistic novel by John O'Hara, ''Appointment in Samarra,'' illustrates the downward spiral of a promising young man. The drunk, self-loathing Julian English alienates and angers everyone close to him.
Camus uses the motif of weather, most commonly sun and heat, to express Meursault’s emotions. Meursault often describes the weather and how it ‘affects’ him. This can symbolize his actual feelings he tries to hide. An example can be found when Meursault is walking to his mother’s funeral. On the outside he is calm and even seems a little annoyed.
Through the use of diction and symbolism; Camus reveals Meursault’s is apathetic towards his bonding with others and unable
Camus portrays freedom and choice in The Stranger through Meursault's many acts against the society he lives in. He chooses to be an atheist and stray away from god. The magistrate converses with Mersault, “... drawing himself up to his full height and asking me if he believed in God. I said no. He sat down indignantly.
Meursault begins to take in everything that has been going on throughout his life and has realized the situations that lead his death sentence. After Meursault's trail, he only cared about escaping the machinery of justice, hoping there is a way to avoid this problem. He blames himself every time for not paying attention or being aware to accounts of executions. Mesursault believes he could of found a way to prevent himself from dying if he was more curious about it. Times at the cell he remembers a story Maman used to tell Meursault about his father how he watched a murder get executed.
Finally, Meursault is judged in the trial by with whom he associates. Marie is seen as Meursault’s “mistress” based on the testimony that she gave of meeting him the day after Maman died and going to a comedy movie made her seem of more dubious quality than she actually entailed “It took me a few minutes to understand the last part because he kept saying “his mistress” and to me she was Marie.” (Camus. 99) This exemplifies that Meursault saw Marie in one way, which was the rational way as Marie had never actually promoted any ideas of promiscuity, society views Marie in an entirely different scenario based on the circumstances of her and Meursault’s acquaintance. This shows once again the rationality of Meursault’s thinking is subverted by
Meaning of Life What is life? What is the meaning of our existence? These existential questions were asked by almost every individual alive at some point in their life. Over the years many philosophers have come up with individual explanations to why they believe life can be unreasonable, futile, the will of god, or just simply meaningless.
Decision making is part of our everyday life; from a five year old deciding which toy to play with, to a college student deciding to ingest large amounts of alcohol on a Sunday night, instead of studying for his upcoming mid-term examination on Monday morning. From a very young age, I always heard those closest to me reiterate on the idea that the decisions we take today, can greatly affect the outcome of our plans tomorrow; being a child, I did not have the ability to understand the meaning behind this, in my opinion, powerful phrase; I thought of, such as a phrase grown-ups utilized to diverge a child from deviancy, or to reinforce the importance of good behavior as that child matured from a boy to a teenager, and from a teenager to an adult.