jueves, 30 de agosto de 2012

The Stranger part 2 - vague scenes

In the chapters 5 and 6 of part one and 1 and 2 of part two M.M. meets Reymond and we learn that they become "pals". M.M. helps Reymond write a letter to his "mistress" which inturn ends unsettling. Reymond wins his mistress back, but instantly beats her again. What becomes vague is exaclty what happened in Reymond's appartment, and then later when he was being "investigated". every thing occured in such a small amount of time that we hardly remember it.
 I suppose the point that Camus is trying to get across is live in the moment of now. Camus implies that Reymond and his mistress engage in sexual affairs, then he beats her. What we don't notice is that Reymond is acting upon his immediate feelings. First the sexual temptation, and later his anger of his cheating mistress.

martes, 28 de agosto de 2012

The Stranger- overview of Existentialism

"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: "Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours." That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday"
In this quote, Meursualt (M.M.) explains that his mother has recently died, but doesn't go into depth about this. Rather he explains how absurd it is that he doesn't have the time of his mothers death. perhaps he is too preocupied, too much in the "now" to think about the fact that his mother has deceased.

  She said, "If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church." She was right. There was no way out.
This quote vaguely foreshadows the death of M.M. but more importantly emphasizes the fact that death is inevitable and no human can escape it. The word "sunstroke" presented in the quote above helps morph the readers idea of the consequences there are for going "slowly". Although going fast now sounds reasonable, going to fast will give you a "chill". Humans usually get a "chill" either through cold air or unexpectedness. In this case unexpectedness occurs and gives one a chill because one day they're on earth, the next they are dead. To infer going slowly through life is painful, but to go through life to fast, you will catch a "chill" because you unexpectedly ended up dead.

lunes, 20 de agosto de 2012

The color green and it's symbolism in the great gatsby

  • The color green symbolizes hope
  • Gatsby was hoping to restore his ancient relationship with Daisy that has long been impossible, though Gatsby failed to realize it because he was blinded by the hope generated by the green light. It insinuates that hope is not always a reality. 
  • Nick encounters Gatsby standing in Gatsby’s lawn in the dead of night, and describes what he sees “…he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguishing nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock.