"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." --Albert Camus Life. This little four-letter word is so perplexing and difficult to define. Sure, Webster has its own definition. Yet, scholars and...

Conflict in the Outsider – A Man in Revolt The major source of conflict in the text, The Outsider written by Albert Camus, is ultimately Meursault's rebellion against the expectations of society. This conflict, caused be rebellion, controls the plot line of the text from the time of ...

Mersaults' Animal Nature Albert Camus' The Stranger starts with the death of a mother, maybe. Her son, Mersault, is unsure. He is also oblivious to the concepts of marriage, God, and repentance, as well as other institutions of society. According to social law, this is reason to execute him for...

The Stranger by Albert Camus is one of the more interesting novellas I have read recently. The first thing that struck me about the book was when I was on page 8 and I realized that everything was in the first person. I thought this was going to be a problem for me but it turned out that i...

Edgar Allan Poe, the founder of detective stories, the master of manipulating the issue of death, and whose tales are filled with all kinds of symbols, allegories that conveys the author¡s concepts about life. He his equipped with thoughtful, cautious analysis ability, and sufficient imagination. ...

School year of 2002-2003 was one if not the most significant experience in my so called life. It was the point of my life where I almost had to choose between life and death. I was in my third year of high school. And nevertheless my youth, I undergone through it. I had remarkably finished and pa...