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From the Ted Talk by Nina Medvinskaya: Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The star of this cycle, and Camus’ first published novel, offers a rather bleak response. "The Stranger" follows Meursault, an emotionally detached young man who doesn’t attribute much meaning to anything. He doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, he supports his neighbor’s scheme to hliuamtie a woman, he even commits a violent crime — but Meaursault feels no remorse. For him the world is pointless and moral juegndmt has no place in it. This attitude creates hostility between mrulseuat and the orderly sceioty he inhabits, slowly iiaecsnnrg his alienation until the novel’s evolisxpe climax.
Open Cloze
The star of this cycle, and Camus’ first published novel, offers a rather bleak response. "The Stranger" follows Meursault, an emotionally detached young man who doesn’t attribute much meaning to anything. He doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, he supports his neighbor’s scheme to _________ a woman, he even commits a violent crime — but Meaursault feels no remorse. For him the world is pointless and moral ________ has no place in it. This attitude creates hostility between _________ and the orderly _______ he inhabits, slowly __________ his alienation until the novel’s _________ climax.
Solution
- judgment
- humiliate
- society
- explosive
- increasing
- meursault
Original Text
The star of this cycle, and Camus’ first published novel, offers a rather bleak response. "The Stranger" follows Meursault, an emotionally detached young man who doesn’t attribute much meaning to anything. He doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, he supports his neighbor’s scheme to humiliate a woman, he even commits a violent crime — but Meaursault feels no remorse. For him the world is pointless and moral judgment has no place in it. This attitude creates hostility between Meursault and the orderly society he inhabits, slowly increasing his alienation until the novel’s explosive climax.
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