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This 3 page paper discusses the themes of colonialism in Camus' works, A Happy Death and The First Man. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of discussion by those peoples and lands whom were invaded. Perhaps this is because the impact and the devastation are often obvious when looking at the plight of the conquered
while more subtle are the impacts to those who perpetuate the act. Albert Camus works, A Happy Death, and The First Man show two views of colonialism from Camus perspective.
A Happy Death is features another Mersault (not to be confused with the one that shows up in The Stranger). Mersault is not happy.
In fact, it seems that ever facet of Mersaults life is given to meaningless work and meaningless people, with the exception of one person. This person is a crippled man
named Zagreus who is very rich, but is also unhappy. He tells Mersault that money doesnt insure happiness but that it does buy one time to find it. With Zagreus
consent, Mersault murders him and takes all of his wealth. Mersault waits for happiness, but it does not come. He attempts to find it
in traveling, hedonistic acts, and exhausting all those possibilities, eventually retreats into a cave to become a hermit. It is only there that he finds a modicum of happiness. There,
in the cave, all alone, he dies a happy death. What this story is indicating is that the French Government, or any other imperial minded
nation, thinks that they will find happiness with increased wealth and conquest. But, in the end, those things are shallow and do not bring any measure of happiness. Finally, when
the Imperial powers retreat onto their own shores, under their own influence should they be able to find happiness. It is obvious that Camus believes that colonialism is an insult
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