In Camus’s The Stranger, Meursault is a detached man who shows the reader from his own perspective his experiences of living outside of society’s expectations. Although Meursault finds comfort in living with his own standards, he finds that it is impossible for him to be treated fairly by those who live in accordance with society’s expectations. Thus, Meursault suffers from society's judgment and eventually loses his life. During Meursault’s trial for the killing of an Arab, the reader can see how
In the book The Stranger, by Albert Camus, the main character Meursault has lot going on in his life that he doesn’t seem to care about too much. His mother or “maman” passes away and he shows a severe lack of emotion before and during the funeral. When thinking about marriage he is not adamant about getting married he is just simply ok with it. The lack of emotion shown is puzzling however, in the final passage of part 1, Meursault consumes himself with the physical world, rather than the emotional
Meursault, a man living in Algiers, takes a bus to Marengo to attend his mother’s funeral after receiving a telegram. After the funeral, he seems unaffected by her death and he briefly describes his outing with Marie, his co-worker. Later on, he meets Raymond, an abuser of women, and agrees to go with him to his friend’s beach house. There, he gets entangled in a ruthless murder, and is ultimately sentenced to death. During his last hours, Meursault realizes how meaningless and pointless life is
In the novel, “The Stranger”, Meursault fits appropriately in the novel because his actions, feelings, and his way of thinking towards certain events can make people realize that his personality can be “strange.” Throughout the novel, Meursault can be expressed as a person who doesn’t really care what comes and goes throughout his life, and may be viewed as an outcast towards society for the way his actions portray in the novel. He may also be viewed as a man with no emotions because he doesn’t
novel The Stranger, by Albert Camus, the protagonist and the narrator, Monsieur Meursault is hated and feared by his community for murdering an innocent man. Meursault is known for being heinous and lacking sentimental value. He is only known as a hero in his best friend's eye’s considering his trust in him. Meursault rarely cares for people. Although Monsieur Meursault is loyal to his loved ones, he almost never shows affection in any friendship or relationship. All through the novel, Meursault lacks
Albert Camus in his novel, The Stranger, shows a genuinely interesting character, Meursault. In the beginning Meursault is depicted to appear as unethical and cruel, through him not showing no grief at his mother’s funeral. However, Camus, throughout the story builds up a considerably more engaging character that portrays more human-like emotions. At the end, Meursault character changes because he leaves off with a sympathetic feel towards him and is left off with thoughtful reflections and revelations
Literary analysis: How Meursault is indifferent in The Stranger, by Albert Camus Although Meursault is the title character and narrator of Albert Camus’ short novel The Stranger, he is also a somewhat flat character. His apparent indifferent demeanor may be a convenience to Camus, who mainly wanted to display his ideas of absurdism. And as a flat character, Meursault is not fully delineated: he lacks deep thought and significant change. His purpose is that of a first-person narrator whose actions
Meursault is a way different from your average human. Through his actions, many can tell that he has some sort of antisocial personality disorder, since he shows no empathy towards his friends and family members. We can see multiple examples of this in the book. The first example is when he attends his mother's wake and funeral. He seems very disconnected from the situation at the time. When he says that he had the feeling that the others were there judging him, he is partially right. They were
In Albert Camus’ novella, The Stranger, he exposes his beliefs on absurdism through the narration of Meursault. Camus’ definition of absurdism is a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is illogical and meaningless. Camus, founder of absurdism and French Nobel Prize winning author, sends the reader his underlying theme that life is meaningless and has no ulti-mate significance. This underlying theme of life’s absurdity is extremely personal to Camus through his own individual experiences
displayed in his 1946 work, The Stranger, a tale of an emotionally-detached man known as Meursault, who lives in French-colonized Algiers during the intermission of the two World Wars. Consisting of two parts—The Stranger first explores his daily life as a free man, and in the second, delves more into the character’s own philosophy as Meursault contemplates during his remaining time in jail. At its core, the story explores the relationships and interactions of the odd Meursault through the character’s inner