The Outsider 2

To What Extent Does Meursault illustrate the value of Authenticity? To live authentically, in existenialism, means basically to live without deluding ourselves about the meaning of our lives or our place in the world, or about death. According to the existentialists, much of what we do is in what Sartre would call 'bad faith'. Religion is a prime example of Bad Faith. God is, allegedly, an imaginative excuse for not facing up to our own …

…they were, how important they thought their life was or what they did in it. He regrets nothing. His heart jumps one final time at the thought that he might still have a chance of living a little longer, but he finally kicks away hope and allows himself to stare death directly in the face. BIBLIOGRAPHY: -'The Outsider' Albert Camus, Penguin. Translated Joseph Laredo. -'The Myth of Sisyphus' Albert Camus, Penguin. Translated by Justin O'Brien.