In the short Novel The Stranger by Albert Camus we are...

In the short Novel The Stranger by Albert Camus we are introduced to a man who doesn’t believe in god and the first reaction then, as a reader, may be a brief attention to what may come to light to a character who comes to understand that there is no Divinity, no God, nothing. What happens when he realizes that his death is final? That his pleasures, his displeasures, and his sorrows are small bits to an existence of nothingness? What changes in his daily life of work/eat/love/sleep must he make? The Stranger tells the story of a man named Meursault, who lives for the physical pleasures in the moment, free of unwritten laws or societal pressures. Instead of obeying the social norms rules, Meursault tries to live as honestly as he can,†¦show more content†¦These â€Å"acts† of independence also represents a rebellion against any attempt to place boundaries on his life. Meursault also maintains the kind of ironic disinterest we would expect from someone would identify with the absurd. He prefers observing events going on around him, rather than getting directly involved; one chapter describes Meursault spending an entire day sitting on his balcony watching passers-by in the street, this is a prime example. Even when he becomes directly involved in events, he refuses to get too trapped up in them. When his â€Å" lover†, Marie, asks him to marry her, he tells her no and that he doesnt love her but it makes no difference to him if they get married or not. She is taken back by this statement and begins to question her own self. When he kills the Arab, there is a sense that he is not really there entirely, that he is not really doing what he is doing. It seems almost as if he is witnessing himself shooting the Arab rather than actually doing it. In his final upsurge to the chaplain in prison, Meursault reviews a great deal of his absurd worldviews, proclaiming that nothing really matters. That, no matter what, we all live and we all die. What we do before we die is ultimately irrelevant. After the chaplain leaves, Meursault enjoys a final moment of serenity: And I felt ready to live it all again too. As if that blind rage had washed meShow MoreRelated I Don’t Have a Topic for My Research Paper, So I’m Writing about Nothing2826 Words   |  12 Pagescounting sense, this works. Zero is non-existence. Yet, in the actual study of mathematics, one learns that zero may be many things, but never nothing at all. Zero is perhaps the most powerful number in all of mathematics, and its influence on the way we work with numbers is clear. Multiply a number, any number, from the greatest to the small, from positive to negative infinity, by zero. Divide zero by any of these numbers. Zero absolves, absorbs, changes said number completely - it becomes zero