How Absurd!
No Faith
The Trials of Meursault
Fun in the Sun
It Means Nothing
100
This is the belief that people are always in conflict.
What is absurd revolt?
100
Maman described herself as one of these before her death.
What is an Athiest?
100
This man is, in Meursault's opinion, the more talented lawyer.
Who is the prosecutor?
100
The sun causes him to take a long time to walk to Maman's funeral.
Who is Thomas Perez?
100
This was the fate of the Czeckoslovakian man who returned home after earning a fortune.
What is getting killed by his mother?
200
He is condemned to roll a rock up a hill for eternity.
Who is Sisyphus?
200
He visits Meursault shortly before Meursault's execution.
Who is the priest?
200
Meursault hears this at the end of his trial.
What is the horn of an ice cream truck?
200
This is the color of the room in which Meursault sits vigil for his mother.
What is white?
200
Meursault doesn't know this about his mother.
What is her age?
300
This philosophy, which also dictates that there is no constructed meaning to life, is a close cousin of absurdism.
What is existentialism?
300
Meursault does this to get rid of the magistrate when he is berating him in the questioning room.
What is appearing as if he agrees?
300
Meursault says the jurors look like this.
What is anonymous passengers on a streetcar?
300
Meursault and Marie do this together on the day of their first date.
What is swim?
300
Meursault loses track of this in prison.
What is time?
400
This part of absurdism implies that people should be able to do as they please.
What is absurd freedom?
400
Meursault tells the chaplain that he believes this remains after you die.
What is nothing?
400
Meursault feels an odd desire to do this to Celeste during Celeste's testimony.
What is kiss him?
400
He invited Meursault, Raymond, and Marie to his beach house.
Who is Masson?
400
At the end of his time in prison, Meursault says that it doesn't really matter when this happens, because it is inevitable.
What is death?
500
This is what we call the inherent conflict between wanting to find meaning in life, but knowing we never can.
What is the Absurd?
500
The magistrate calls Meursault this after their tempestuous first meeting.
What is "Mounsieur Antichrist?'
500
The thought of this runs through Meursault's head every day during his time in jail.
What is his appeal?
500
He gets slashed by the Arabs.
Who is Raymond?
500
Everyone, according to Meursault, is this.
What is privileged?