10. Existentialism and Absurdism draw upon connotations or randomness and despair. How does the author portray hope in the text? How does the hope help establish a theme?
Existentialism: a chiefly 20th century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad. [www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/]
Absurdism: a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless and that the search for order brings the individual into conflict with the universe.[www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/]
"Nevertheless I answered that I had pretty much lost the habit of analyzing myself and that it was hard for me to tell him what he wanted to know."(65)
"I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness."(66)
"I was about to tell him he was wrong to dewell on it, because it really didn't matter."(69)
"He simply asked, in the same tone, if I was sorry for what I had done. I thought about it for a minute and said that more than sorry I felt kind of annoyed."(70)
"I thought it must be Marie. It was."(73)
"I was feeling a little sick and I'd have liked to leave. The noise was getting painful. But on the other hand, I wanted to make the most of Mari'es being there. I don't know how much time went by."
Meursault doesn't need hope. Meursault "had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowering overhead, little by little [he] would have gotten used to it."(77) Camus portrays Meursault as one without hope, and without a need for hope. He can adjust to whatever circumstance he is in, to be be perfectly quaint.
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