Crime and Punishment vs. The Stranger

In Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment an important and very interesting character is Svidrigailov. Throughout his life he continually cheats on his wife, molests children, and may have murdered many people. However, Svidrigailov disclaims the idea that he is a truly immoral person from his charitable actions towards the end of the plot. Through Svidrigailov, Dostoyevsky tries to push the central theme that all people have a benevolent side to them no matter how pernicious they act .

Consider the design of a puppet. When observing this structure, one will give attention to the source of the puppet’s actions being dictated by the puppeteer. These actions are able to be transmitted from the will of the puppeteer into the puppet through the strings that the puppeteer uses to control specific parts of the puppet. Furthermore, one can infer that the strings of the puppet are the motive behind the puppet’s action. If the puppet’s actions are disoriented or even disjointed, one can infer that the strings or the motives behind the puppet’s actions are conflicting. A notable literary example of this depiction can be found in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserablés. Late in Book V: Valjean, Jean Valjean describes the method of reasoning behind Javert’s suicide when he says, “To owe life to a criminal...to betray society in order to remain true...these absurdities should come about and be heaped on top of him...it was this that defeated him” (Hugo 1181). Javert’s adherence to his internal conflict imploded and eventually influenced his suicide; a reader might see Javert’s decision and confirm that an inner conflict of motives prompted his unanticipated action. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a 19th Century existentialist Russian author, portrays a similar theme in his book Crime and Punishment which tells the story of a man named Raskolnikov, the suspect of a murder case, who appears like a puppet with actions that become increasingly

From page fifty-eight to fifty-seven of Albert Camus’s The Stranger he uses the relentless Algerian sun as a motif for the awareness of reality that pursues the main character, Meursault, throughout the passage. When each motif appears in the novel such as this passage, Meursault’s actions change. This exemplifies that the light, heat, and sun trigger him to become debilitated or furious. Albert Camus sets up this motif in the passage to indicate to the reader that this motif shows the major themes of this novel. This motif shows Meursault’s emotion, how the imagery of weaponry affects Meursault’s actions, how the sun is a representation of society, and how the sun weakens Meursault.

Light and Heat Imagery in The Stanger by Albert Camus, and Its Effects on the Murder and Existentialism in the Novel

The philosophical and psychological fiction novel Crime and Punishment is written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In the novel there are many uses of storm metaphors and similes. Dostoevsky uses storm metaphors and similes to produce imagery to enhance the interaction with the reader using imagery. This essay will explain the significance of individual storm metaphors and similes. The first genre of these metaphors and similes is about quickness and rapidness.

The heat is mentioned when Mr. Hadley’s face begins to feel sweaty while looking at the vultures. The extreme heat is another example of the children’s terrible feelings. The hotter the sun, the more hatred the children have been keeping bottled up inside them. While not obvious at first, the sun can make a huge difference in the way the reader looks at the story and it’s characters, while also getting a look at the children’s personal

In the climax of The Stranger, Meursault confronts an arabic man on a beach after a violent confrontation. Meursault was carrying his friends revolver at the time and used it on the arab. In his words, the sunś blinding light combined with his pounding headache urged him to fire upon the arab.

In conclusion, William Faulkner’s stories deal with a plethora of human problems, while at the same time they focus on social conflicts and misunderstanding. In, “That Evening Sun” this can all be clearly seen, as he focuses on one of the most urgent problems of that

The Sun Also Rises is a story of the damaging effect of sexual tension, the luxury of life, and false friendship. However, Hemingway's peculiar style takes the reader through a dramatic structure that is the home of many impactful themes. Two motifs that were evidently the backdrop of the plot were both bullfighting and alcohol. Throughout the dramatic structure of the novel it is evident that the two worked together as the motivating factors of each character's life. Every character's actions, experiences, and relationships with one another was produced through alcohol and represented though bullfighting. Additionally, both factors are the mix that displays the false impression of a luxurious life.

He is making the sun have actual human features by saying the sun “shattered” into little pieces. As we all know the sun does not actually shatter he was just saying that because it was so bright out. He used this imagery when he was walking on the beach with Raymond, when they saw a couple of Arabs on the beach. Meursault never really had a friend like Raymond so he never

It is sunny and hot: to what extent does heat and sun imagery shape Meursault’s action In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, weather imagery plays an important role. Some of the most important imagery is heat and sun imagery. The main character, Meursault, is always aggravated when the sun is present. Sun and heat are shown to control his emotions.

The Actions of an Unordinary Man: The Stranger Monsieur Meursault can be described as emotionless, indifferent, and bold. However, throughout the book “The Stranger” we are forced to see that the main character was never challenged to express his emotions but rather his physical being. The audience can see within the text that the sun is undoubtedly significant to Meursault. The author Albert Camus used symbolism in order to justify Meursault killing the Arab; it was because the sun raised his anxiety.

In the novel, The Stranger, author Albert Camus confronts some important issues of the time, and uses the singular viewpoint of the narrator Meursault to develop his philosophy and effectively weave together themes of absurdity, colonialism, and free will. Through the progressive disruption of Meursault’s life and his characterization, Camus presents the absurdity of the human condition along with the understanding that a person can actually be happy in the face of the absurd. Camus also intentionally sets the story in the colonized country of Algeria, and hints at the racial tensions that exist between French-Algerians and Arabs.

Meursault is definitely not a sunshiny kind of guy. But he is remarkably affected by the sun, definitely not in the way that normal people are. The sunshine doesn’t make him lively and fog or rain doesn’t make him want to stay inside. The sun essentially controls his emotions, which in turn controls his actions which is super difficult considering he lives in the Algiers where the sun is always beaming.

The light of the sun is distracting him and making excuses for what is happening here and back in the passage about the Arab, the sun is providing an excuse and an out for him to believe in. These two situations both heavily involve Meusault and death and whether it is the death of his mother or the murder of an Arab it does not matter Meursault uses the sun as a way to not focus on what is actually happening. In the passage about Meursault’s mother, he discusses “the rows of cypress trees leading up the hills next to the sky…” Again Meursault is focusing on his surroundings as a distraction and an out. He even says “…I was able to understand Maman better.”