Nihilism In The Stranger By Albert Camus

Progressively he slowly lost faith in God. “For the first time I felt anger rising within in me. Why should I sanctify His name” (Night 33)? He felt as though the “Almighty, the eternal, and terrible Master of the Universe” decided to not do anything to save them from their nearly certain deaths (Night 33). This attitude only continued to grow as things progressed in the camp.

Readers can see the hopelessness in Elie from his emphasis on his existence as just a body. What was equally important was when Elie’s father passed away. Following his death, Elie was completely desensitized to anymore pain, he said that it “no longer mattered. Since [his] father’s death, nothing mattered to [him] anymore”(113). There is a significant change of diction from the beginning of the novel compared to near the end.

Also, this is apparent in his relationship with Diana, where he refuses to get engaged because “…she was too much like a mother to me” (88). Only later in his life will he feel anything other than relief from his parents deaths, and even then he still feels apathetic towards

Some awful pain inside me.” (95) Additionally, Walter even decides that he can’t trust anybody anymore, “.. Mama you know it’s all divided up. Life is. Sure enough.

He would never talk to Zeena about the problems that they have. It 's apparent that Zeena and Ethan don 't love each other. Their conversations are as minimal as they can get, and they 're both cold around each other. Their relationship is on the edge of breaking apart, and one accurate step would 've helped him be free from this burden. He also easily lets Zeena guilt him in into his sickness.

Billy Pilgrim was an ex-soldier who had experienced very harsh events which caused him to get stuck in time and revisit them. Revisiting time can cause one to ignore and find the mishaps and the happiness of life meaningless. 　　 　　Tralfamadorians’s ideas of this phrase was that even though one can die, events in that person’s life can be visited many times only through the invention of time travel. Being unstuck in time, Billy can visit the many events in his life including his death. Due to being unstuck in time makes Billy careless about the importance of life, death, and time.

Gene always competes with Finny he attempts to be better than Finny at everything, and once Finny dies, the competition dies as well. At Finny’s funeral, Gene states, “I could not escape a feeling that this way my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case” (194). Finny is Gene’s whole life, so when Finny dies, half of Gene dies too, and Gene has to learn to live without Finny. Gene cannot even talk about Finny after his death as he explains, “I never talked about Phineas and neither did anyone else…I could not use past tense” (202). Gene is in denial of his friend’s death.

Everyone is growing and changing, but they are staying the same, forever! These examples show that when you live for eternity, you will be stuck and longing to change. Miles is an example of a loss of friends and family. He once had a wife and two children. However they left since they realized they grew old

There is still hope in him. His demeanor after the death of grandma is a sign that life can improve for him. Redemption took a toll on Misfit’s heart. Before the death of grandma, he says that there is “no pleasure but meanness.”. Then after killing the old woman he boldly states, “It’s no real pleasure in life.”

He did not want to have the same fate as his friend considering the all the pain it had caused him. “I do not fall in combat, and shall make not my name” (62). He is determined to become immortal so that he can carry on his and Enkidu’s

Those left to carry on would not fit into their society. No one would remember them or even understand what they know or feel. The veterans could not hold an occupation, further reinforcing the notion that their life would be dismal. They would not be able to “find their way any more” because the war has stopped-what is their purpose now that the war was over? To carry on, their entire previous life would be an alien idea.

That quote is saying that all he asked was one thing, but one thing is too much to ask for. Young people are dying and they are really careless about it. Maybe if people start caring about others the world will change. In today 's society, the world is still the same. People killing others over dumb stuff.

Lennie finds, obstacles with Curly so he feels like that may provide some conflict with achieving his goal, as shown by this quote. "I might jus ' as well go away. George ain 't gonna let me tend no rabbits now" (Steinbeck 107). Lennie know that his goal really is almost unachievable now, so he breaks down and realizes that giving up is the easy way out.

When his father was struck, Wiesel was powerless to stop it. “My body was afraid of also receiving a blow” (Wiesel 106). The Nazi’s did not allow for Wiesel to comfort his father in any way. After his death, Wiesel did not cry, “and it pained {him} that {he} could not weep” (Wiesel 106). Wiesel has completely lost all faith and hope he had in humanity and simply became a walking shell.

The battle for existence is what drives Meursault to connect more to the physical world. In The Stranger by Albert Camus, there’s a young, detached man named Meursault living in French Algiers. At the beginning of the novel, Meursault receives a telegram, which informs him of his mother’s death. He acts calm during and after the funeral and frolics around with his girlfriend, Marie. While on the beach with his friends, they are suddenly confronted by Arabs and get into a fight.