Religion Essay -- Morality

While the degree of apparitional fervor has flourished and waned in various civilizations, worship itself has never ceased to be a point of interest. At times, it has enjoyed effusive eulogy while at other times it has met cold reception. Religion as explored in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and The Stranger by Albert Camus is openly criticized. Under the harsh, denuded statements of realism, righteousness loses its ethereal wonder and under the hostile st be of absurdism, religion renounces its meaning. Flauberts protagonist, Emma, and his other characters more often than not possess precisely a superficial understanding of faith, essentially precluding any of religions positive impact. Meanwhile, Camus derides religion as a futile endeavor in an indifferent humankind and casts an unfriendly light on the religious magistrate, who is pose with the protagonist, Meursault. Thus, Camus supplys the futile proselytizing of an absurdist man, who disregards religion, while Flaub ert illustrates the failure of religion to save a muliebrity consumed by romanticism. In both(prenominal) cases, religion is criticized for falling short of delivering its purported salvation. Morality, the vainglory of religious followers, is much heralded as a virtue, yet Camus and Flaubert depict a different reality where religion fails to prevent immorality, much little promote morality. Camus calls into question the definition of morality on what basis are other people deemed to be moral or immoral? on whose consensus is that morality then heralded? From the prosecutors point of view, the concomitant that Meursault hadnt wanted to see Maman, that he hadnt cried once during her funeral is sufficient enjoin to condemn him (Camus 89). As the title of the book The Stranger suggests... ...bert unflinchingly peels back the amicable niceties to display religion as it has evolved into an inadequate, superficial interest for his characters. As stand for in both books, religio n is more a distraction than a panacea for lifes hurdles. It fails to moderate the passion of Emma, who clings to religion with the aforementioned(prenominal) pitiful desperation as she did with her affairs. Meursault refuses to conform to any sort of religious nexus and in the process, ironically opening himself up to the hostility of the world and die joyfully. While the defiance of Meursault against religion results in his absurdist happiness, the turmoil of Emmas life, caused by her romantic urges, her encumbered social position, and the repeated failures of religion, end in death by rat poison. Two deaths thus signify actually different lives, but religion as found in both texts is condemned.