World Lit Peer Review Comments Intro • Provide a bit of context as to who Meursault and “the Arab man” are. • Camus did not self-identify as an existentialist • I think it’s good you defined existentialism in your intro, seeing you plan use the concept throughout your entire essay Body Paragraph 1 • This is more so providing background knowledge rather than analysis. I think you should include this information in your introduction, rather than as a body paragraph Body Paragraph 2 • Avoid phrasing like “a lot of” • In your topic sentence you mention his mother’s funeral, however that is not mentioned in the paragraph. • Absurdism is mentioned but you have not defined it yet, and your introduction only focuses on existentialism • Explain how …show more content…
When you say, “Meursault states so nonchalantly that his head is going to be cut off”, you a briefly looking at his diction and this point can be developed further to support to claim of his existentialism • Try not to use hypotheticals • Your point about his observation of the judge’s tone is a good idea, but can be developed further using a literary device • I like that you observe the specific phrase “in the name of the French people”, however you’re trying to prove that French treated the Arabs poorly, whereas your analysis states that they had respect for the Arabs • Try to explain why the book causes the reader to question their existence. I’m not fully understanding this point.
If you choose, you can compare or contrast the U.S. Constitution with the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace (the Iroquois Constitution).
Existentialism is a philosophy that puts emphasis on the existence of a person’s freedom or life. In a human point of view, it means to believe in oneself, not a group or religion. (33)
flesh and tiny stones picked up from an ant heap. Lame Deer knew though that after all of this was over
* The thesis is the last sentence of the Introduction but is linked to each body paragraph topic (Claim) sentence
You must reference throughout your introductory paragraph to back up your statements with academic sources.
In your second introductory paragraph, you should inform the reader about the major categories that you found in your research. This section should tell the reader what groupings you will discuss. Ideally, your body paragraphs will follow this same order that you use in this paragraph.
What is existentialism? What a great topic to write about. I must admit that I personally do not know what existentialism is, other than the definition from Google.com, individual existence
For the question of what absurdism is, absurdism can best be summed up as the belief that one must make their own path in the world without any external influences to achieve enlightenment. Albert Camus The Stranger is about a man by the name Meursault who seems to be easily influenced by external forces, whether it be by others or his environment. One of the repercussions for his complacency is that he is " forced'' by the sun to kill an Arab man. After being tried and found guilty of this crime Meursault is sentenced to death and while imprisoned he come to reject society as a whole and happily wait for his impending death. In The Stranger the protagonist, Meursault is characterized as an atheist who does not have any clear idea who he
You are just writing a body paragraph, so be sure to select a very specific topic.
I also recommend it for the paragraph where you mentioned the evidence because thinking as a reader I'd like to know where you got those evidences or results , so quoting some websites or authors could be a good idea as well .
“It is not only useful to draw upon the Arabs’ political customs, but necessary to modify the rules of their civil law only gradually… If the political leadership is common to both races, but everything else is different for a long time, fusion will come later, of its own accord” (Writings on Empire and Slavery 23-24). As such, a peaceful engagement will slowly mold the colonized peoples to what the French desire, while a full aggression will only cause them to band together against the French and cause problems. As we can see in Fanon’s writings, this ends with the subjugation of the vast majority of those
For him to cut this interview short, he pretends to agree with the magistrate. To his surprise, he find “..his face lit up..”. His was consciously aware of his actions because after the magistrate commented him, Meursault find himself shaking his head, not pretending to agree to run him away. He is in a state of acceptance instead of being in a state of indifference, he become more interested in how he views people, and he does not isolate himself from
What is the absurd? Camus categorized as the “belief in the absurdity of existence must then dictate his conduct” (Camus, 6). What Camus means is feeling of absurdity goes hand in hand with having a meaningless life. We get so used to doing the same routine that, we as people don’t think we just act like a robot. Camus asks “Does its absurdity require one to escape it through hope or suicide? And does the absurd dictate death” (Camus, 9). Camus says, “An objective mind can always introduce into all problems have no place in this pursuit and this passion” (Camus, 9). The problem with this is if we were always based on facts then we would not be able to base our opinions on experiences. Camus also relates the feeling of absurdity to exile, we as people what to have meaning and or purpose in our own lives. The absurdity displaces us from having a meaning life. Camus says, “Mean who die by their own hand consequently follow to its conclusion their emotional inclination” (Camus, 9). Camus considers this an absurd reasoning because this feeling of exile can turn anyone crazy leading into suicide which both the absurd and suicide are linked together.
His statements emerge from the challenges and predicaments of concrete human existence, as well as personal journeys and struggles to comprehend fundamental existential questions. Camus is usually noted as a writer and essayist; however, the philosophical value attained from his literary works dealing with existentialism has increasingly gained recognition. His works from The Myth of the Sisyphus embodies the solipsistic approach that upholds the individual “self” as the sole and only foundation of existence, culminating in the concept of absurd. In this case, the absurd represents the duality between the sense of isolation within society and the desire for unity; A nonexplicable and idiotic paradox. Contradictorily, the person who embraces the absurd in existence is the one who fully attains self-acceptance. He concludes that the Sisyphus man is a happy man who reaches fulfillment as a product of self-realization; the individual who lives the absurd realizes human existence to the fullest and is therefore satisfied with their own “self”. Camus encapsulates this idea in the solipsistic hero, where he emphasizes his idea with the statement “The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with
In his book-length essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus presents a philosophy that contests philosophy itself. This essay belongs squarely in the philosophical tradition of existentialism but Camus denied being an existentialist. Both The Myth of Sisyphus and his other philosophical work, The Rebel, are systematically skeptical of conclusions about the meaning of life, yet both works assert objectively valid answers to key questions about how to live. Though Camus seemed modest when describing his intellectual ambitions, he was confident enough as a philosopher to articulate not only his own philosophy but also a critique of religion and a fundamental critique of modernity. While rejecting the very idea of a philosophical system, Camus constructed his own original edifice of ideas around the key terms of absurdity and rebellion, aiming to resolve the life-or-death issues that motivated