Camus Essay

Facing the Absurd:
My essay will focus on detachment and being an outsider. I'm connecting my personal life to the personal life of Meursault. It will explore questions such as: "Is Meursalt content with his empy, random life? Could you be? Also, the theme of alienation will be used to connect myself with Meursault. I've decided to use Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception as my second work. I'm going to use more than one quote from The Stranger, but one i know for certain is the last passage of the book: " In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself- so like a brother, really- I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." Ever since i've read that paragprah, i've fallen in love with it and have become twisted and enchanted with his words and meanings. My thesis involves the opening of existential nihlism and how it has become more than just a philosophy for me, but a life style and how this has guided my daily behavior and molded me: During my eleventh year at Buckley, I had begun to explore the
world of exitential nihlism- but my fasincation turned into a massive obession and this
magnificient philosophy turned to become how i'd make my daily decisions, what my
relationships were, what i did, and what my interal thoughts were. It was a philosophy that
turned everything that was hard and complex into easy and simple- it was a philosophy that made me face the absurd fearlessly and live with it, so empty and so happy. Most people wont understand this, but thats because most people are all the same and think the same. I dont and i wouldnt trade that for anything.