Existentialism in Albert Camus’s The Outsider And The Fall
The Fall is Fictional, first person confession of Jean – Baptise clemence, a Parisian expatriate Jean – Baptise usef to be a hotshot defense Lawyer, but suddenly realized his life was hypocritical and row lives out his days in a seedy bar in Amsterdam.
The fall explores one of Albert Camus’s mind boggling belifes we are each responsible for everything. During his day, the World War II era, according to camus, everyone living was at fault for the war. If they did not directly, cause it, then it was their fault for not stopping it.
In this Novel Camus tends to say through this novel weather one live a good life according to a social customs, it is fraudulent to our soul. Because He follows the customs of society which is of others not his own. It is conforming attitude which makes man subvert.
I must confess, I ve got a soft spot for these people who are all of a piece when you have thought deeply about mankind, whether because it’s your job or your vocation to do so you may sometimes feel a certain nostalgia for these primates. There’s no side to them.
(P-4-The Fall)
They ‘II be able to sum up modern Man in a single sentence: he fornicated and read the properties. Existentialism, Despair, August, Alienated.
(P-5-The Fall)
The Dutch? Oh no they are a lot less modern. Look at them: they can take their time.
(P-5-The Fall)
Don’t you think that our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you have surely heard about thugte tiry fish in the rivers of brazil which attack the rash summer by those sands, eat him up in a few moments in quick little mouthfuls and leave only a perfectly clean Skelton behind? So, that’s the way they consulted.
What is human life? What is society? How it is constructed? Why we born here?
Are you realtus? Fairly? Good. And do you share your realty with the poor? No well that means you are what I call a (Sadducee)
(P-7-The Fall)
One thing only is simple in my case, which is that I own nothing
(P-7-The Fall)
One thing only is simple in my case, which is that I own nothing. Yes, I was rich, and no, I didn’t share anything with other people. What does that prove? That, I, too, was a Sadducee.
You have to be methodical when you have no character.
(P-8-The Fall)
I live on the site of one of the greatest crimes in history. Perhaps that’s what helps me to understand our gorilla and why he’s so mistrustful.
(P-8-The Fall)
When I see a New face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. Slow down! Danger! Even when the attraction is stronger, I am my guard.
(P-8-The Fall)
However, all I needed was to shiff the odour of victimization on a defendant to saing info action. And what action! Astrom! I were my heart on my sleeve. You would have really thought that justices lept with me every night. Nature has favoured me in appearances, and it requires no effort for me to strike a noble pose.
(P-12-The Fall)
However, I was on the right side, and that was enough to ease my conscience. A sense of legality, the satisfaction of being right and the joy of self – esteem: These, my dear sir, are powerful incentives to keep us on our feet and moving forward.
------ P-13- I once Kneed – I came to meet him --
I loved to help blind men across the street, seeing from afar a white stick trembling on the edge of the pavement, I would dash forward, sometimes getting in a second before some charitable hard that was already reaching out, whistle the blind person away from any gratitude
(P-14-The Fall)
I have always liked to direct people in the street, give them a light, offer a helping hand with a heavy barrow, push a broken – down car and buy a newspaper from a salvation army man or flowers from an old woman, even though I knew she had stolen them from the Montparnasse cemetrs. I also liked – though I find this even harder to admit – I liked to give to beggars.
(P-14-The Fall)
P-14 - P-15 Social convictions of being good I’d rather……..
I felfmost at case, especially, if I was alone, high above the human ants. I had no clifficutly in appreciating why sermons, thunderous homilies and miracles of fire took place on in accessible heights