Part one of term paper
In the mid 1940’s, Albert Camus, began to write the novel . The story has been read over and over again, yet it tells more than it seems to. It tells the story of a town gripped by a deadly disease, and of how the inhabitants thrive to overcome it. Many consider the inhabitants’ fight against to be an allegory to the German Occu ...

Part two of term paper
... Camus says, “the world is thus not explicable.” 2 Because of this condition, he referred to human life as “absurd.” This absurdity amounts to an emptiness in our lives and makes our very existence meaningless. However, Camus also believed we could find meaning through “purpose action,” which means “revolting” against injustices and fighting the “against s that enslave man.” 3This belief runs throughout the novel; and the main characters ...