Nihilism In The Stranger By Albert Camus

This however would slowly die down, before it completely dies out, as Elie experiences the deaths that plagued the camps. 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).

Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The stomach alone was measuring time” (52). 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.

After the war ended, he learns about his parent’s death and feels indifferent and relieved even. 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. Between the takers and the ‘tooken’...” (89) and soon starts to fear that his life will always be an existence of nothing. “Sometimes it’s just like I can see the future stretched out in front of me — just plain as day...” (226) Likewise, another instance is that Beneatha 's thinks she will never be a doctor and never will be anything throughout life.

Ethan doesn 't understand that running away from problems isn 't going to make them disappear. 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.

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.

He believes that to be living you must die at some point, so they cannot continue to rotate on the wheel of life. However, he wants to be on the wheel and change and grow old like everything else. 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.

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.” This is a clear example of a changed heart. Despite the fact that it is not an unwavering compensation, regardless it demonstrates how his strategy for speculation has changed. The grandma offers him redemption, however he rejects it.

Gilgamesh grieves the death of Enkidu, not knowing how to continue his life without him. While the death saddened him, it also frightened him. 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.

In the novel on “page 134 of chapter 8 says” “It does not matter any more. Just tell him the truth, that you never loved him, and it is all wiped out forever.” Gatsby is showing that he really does not care about the argument he just wanted Daisy to himself like he hoped.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.

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. So Lennie really never gets to be the person he really potentially could have been.

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.