A Life Facing Death: The Thought Of Death And Exist In Camus' Work

Albert Camus was a tuberculosis sufferer, he experienced World War II and the Cold War by himself. He got special thought and grasps from these. The childhood full of poverty and happy made him believe that both sunshine and suffering are the present and inevitably of the life, the experience of participating in politics made him possess acute eyes. On the basis of miscellaneous experience of life and deep and serious thought origin, Camus have formed different unique thinking finally.Writer's experiences in life always poured into his work. This paper starts from Camus' work, combined with his personal experiences and the society historical background, carries out the discussion on three aspects.The first chapter is about the beginning of Camus' thinking, based on his two prose colletions of earlier period. Betwixt and Between showed the early experience of death, emphasized the frighten of death and discovery of absurd. The Wedding Colletion showed his passion and value in life, the happiness acquired from nature and life kicked death out and by which he knew how to resist death. Camus' early work indicated his creations afterwards.The second chapter demonstrates thorough of his experiences and thought. Caligula is the first man who recognized death and resisted it. Meursault faced world with cold and resisted death by his holding in life. Sisyphus Analyzed the origins of absurd and asked for abandoning imaginations and enjoying the life; at the same time, Camus predicted the tragically heroic end of this war.The third chapter is about Camus' deliberation and reply to the reality. The Plague described the most glorious resist, people united and carried on a hard resist; this novel showed death was sourced in evil of human nature, victory is temporarily and we should carry on a long-term struggle. The Just Assassins showed the difficult choice between revolution and justice, Camus proposed a method: suicide maybe a repayment of murder. The Rebel stand in humanitarianism and opposed death firmly and support human's dignity. Either his success or failure was performance here obviously.