Albert Camus Research Paper

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Albert Camus was a very well driven and intellectual individual who contributed to a wide range of issues in moral philosophy in his writings. He was born on November 7, 1913 to a poor family in Mondavi, Algeria, then a territory of France. He was the second child in a poverty family of diverse background of Alsatian and Spanish decent. Camus mother was poorly educated and suffered from a childhood illness that left her deaf with a speech impediment. His father later died in the First World War. Camus excelled in school both academically and athletically. He loved sports and was a scholarship recipient. Shortly after enrolling to University of Algiers, he developed tuberculosis at the tender age of seventeen. This illness impacted Camus’ …show more content…
Camus’ first and most popular novel The Stranger was written in 1942 and was soon followed by his first play Caligula in 1944, and his first essay The Myth of Sisyphus in 1942. Camus became good friends with fellow existentialist Jean Paul Sartre in 1944 and together were known as relentless analysts of the modern conscience. Their friendship would soon dissipate with Camus’ open anti-Communist actions. Camus then published his second novel The Plague in 1947, which characterizes an epidemic in a confined city, Oran Algeria, to reflect the escalation of evil and tragedy during World War II. By the mid-century, Camus had reached a worldwide reputation for developing the twin philosophical ideas absurdism and revolt. Absurdism is the belief of the impossibility of making sense of the universe which has no discernable sense, while revolt is the attitude of defiance or resistance to what suppresses humans and leans more on the ethical side according to Camus. Camus received the prestigious Nobel Prize in 1957 for his literary work on developing the concepts of absurdism and revolt through his …show more content…
In the beginning of the story, “The Guest,” Daru, a schoolmaster who resides alone in the schoolhouse, notices a couple of silhouettes in the evening dusk inching their way through the dreary, snowy ground in his direction. Balducci, an armed police officer, is one of the silhouettes and rides horseback while he leads an Arab prisoner who was arrested for murdering his cousin. Balducci states to Daru that it would be his civil duty to escort the prison to the prison in Tinguit, a small town a few hours away, the following day. The schoolmaster wants no part of it, but Balducci falls on silent ears and leaves the prisoner with Daru. Daru contemplates all night what to do. He fights to stay neutral but at the same time does not want to go against the law. After the next sunrise, Daru and the prisoner begin their journey on foot for the police headquarters in Tinguit. Somewhere between the school house and their destination, Daru tells the Arab that he is not delivering him to the police station. He gives the Arab the choice to walk himself freely to the prison or take the other path and seek refuge “among sympathetic nomads”. Daru stares sadly at the Arab as he walks down the path that leads him to the prison. Daru continues on his way back to his home thinking he has remained neutral and did not take sides and the Arab chose on his own free will to
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