How deep does the Rabbit hole go? I really enjoyed this book The Plague by Albert Camus. The reason why I enjoyed this book is because it is a very deep book that functions on several different levels. On a surface level it serves as a historical recount of the events that happened during the plagu...

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913, in the French colonial Algeria. His father was killed in 1914 at the battle of the Marne in World War I. Although his family was impoverished, Camus attended the university in Algiers. He paid for his education with odd jobs until a severe attack of tuberc...

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...

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 ...