Meursault's Personality

The Stranger by Albert Camus, Meursault alienates himself from the rest of society due to a multitude of reasons. Meursault is unlike the rest of the characters in the book because he does not express his emotion to anyone. In the beginning of the novel, he alienated himself from the rest of society because it was felt more comfortable and it required the least amount of effort. However, by the end of the novel, he realizes that he has the ability to choose his own destiny, which is a part of Camus’s philosophy of existentialism. Meursault accepts the theory of the absurd and realizes that life is meaningless. He also is completely alienated by society when he commits the murder. There

In The Stranger by Albert Camus, the murder committed by Meursault is questionably done with no reason. Although the entirety of the second part is spent in society’s attempts to find a cause, Meursault has a durable existential mentality that proves that even he knows that there is no true reason for the crime. Through the use of light and heat imagery and diction in The Stranger, Albert Camus comments on the duality of society trying to find a cause for the murder and Meursault defying this because of his existential mentality. These elements heighten Meursault’s negative outlook on life by

In The Stranger, Albert Camus describes the life of the protagonist, Meursault, through life changing events. The passage chosen illustrates Meursault’s view during his time in prison for killing the Arab. In prison, one can see the shifts in Meursault’s character and the acceptance of this new lifestyle. Camus manipulates diction to indicate the changes in Meursault caused by time thinking of memories in prison and realization of his pointless life. Because Camus published this book at the beginning of World War II, people at this time period also questions life and death similar to how Meursault does.

Albert Camus’ The Stranger explores the philosophic ideology of existentialism in the character Meursault. Meursault is a man in the 1920s in French Algeria going through life seeing and acting through the lens of an existentialist. Without explicitly stating that he lives existentially, his life hits on many key characteristics of an existentialist. Perhaps the most defining of these key characteristics is that he does what he wants, because he can. He also does this because in existentialism there is emphasis on individual choice and freedom based on the assertion that there is no universal right and wrong. Meursault doesn’t always take into consideration what would be polite, or kind, but rather only

In the novel The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud weaves a sister story for Albert Camus’s The Stranger, and has a dialogue of sorts with Camus. At times Daoud’s novel is very critical of Camus, standing in opposition to the attitudes and themes in The Stranger. The existence of The Meursault Investigation and the character of Musa is a criticism of the incomplete picture that Camus paints in his story, and the namelessness of “The Arab” that Meursault killed. Daoud gives a name to Meursault’s victim beyond that of “The Arab.” At other times, Daoud’s book parallels a lot of the ideas put forth by Camus. This can be seen as Harun slowly comes to resemble the man who killed his brother after committing a murder

In the novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, the author shows Meursault’s character development by showing how in the beginning of the book he is physcologically detached from the world also by showing how he is brutally honest and cannot lie and whose moods are dictated by the nature also that Meursault is amoral, towards the end of the book he shows Meursault’s development by showing how Meursault’s thinking broadens and how he comes to peace with what is going on in the world.

In the novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Meursault the protagonist, becomes drawn into a “senseless” murder that has to face the absurdity of life and because of his actions, Meursault is presented as a danger due to his lack of “morality” to society. Meursault who is not able to take control of his life but respond to what life offers him believes in the simplicity of life. He tries to understand the living through logic and objectivity, which ultimately turns futile, as he himself cannot maintain proper control over his thoughts and emotions. From the interactions between Marie, to the murder of the Arab, and the meeting with the Chaplain, Meursault overcomes his indifferent views to form an opinion about what life really means. The central theme presented by Camus is how the threat of mortality becomes a catalyst for understanding the significance of life.

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 embody the absurd, even before he has any awareness of the fact. Since Meursault is embodied absurdism, it is not necessary that he be hyperaware of his thoughts and intentions. His truth has already been built into his character by the

The real stranger in The Stranger is Meursault’s purpose to his life. The novel portrays him to the reader like a normal character when he isn’t. As any reader would believe there is much wrongdoings done by Meursault but they are missing the bigger picture; that he is indifferent to whether his actions were right or wrong because he didn’t think that his life had any purpose. The first part of The Stranger is a basis for how apathetic and passive Meursault was.

External Factors Analysis on Albert Camus’s Book The Stranger Albert Camus, in his book The Stranger (1942), demonstrates the fundamental properties of existentialism and the absurd. The ideology of existentialism truly began after World War II when most of America lost hope in a higher being due to the violence and corruption such as the horrors of the Holocaust. Also, the absurd referred by Camus is the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent meaning in life and the human inability to find any. Moreover, the absurd in this context means “humanly impossible.” These ideas are presented through the main character Meursault by his lack of emotion and withdrawal from society.

   The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1942. The setting of the novel is Algiers where Camus spent his youth in poverty. In many ways the main character, Meursault, is a typical Algerian youth. Like them, and like Camus himself, Meursault was in love with the sun and the sea. His life is devoted to appreciating physical sensations. He seems so devoid of emotion. Something in Meursault's character has appealed primarily to readers since the book's publication. Is he an absurd anti-hero? Is he a moral monster? Is he a rebel against a conventional morality? Critics and readers alike have disputed a variety of approaches to Meursault. I believe he is the embryo

Life is often interpreted by many as having meaning or purpose. For people who are like Meursault, the anti-hero protagonist of Albert Camus' The Stranger, written in 1942, the world is completely without either. Camus' story explores the world through the eyes of Meursault, who is quite literally a stranger to society in his indifference to meaning, values, and morals. In this novel, this protagonist lives on through life with this indifference, and is prosecuted and sentenced to die for it. Through Meursault and his ventures in The Stranger, Camus expresses to the reader the idea that the world is fundamentally absurd, but that people will react to absurdity by attaching meaning to it in vain, despite the fact that the world, like

In The Stranger, Albert Camus allows the main character to tell the story in order to give the reader an experience of his own. Obviously, with a novel also comes language, which Camus incorporates cleverly as a way to indirectly illustrate Meursault’s thoughts about certain situations. Although the novel represents a postmodern setting, the author shifts the overall meaning. In The Stranger, Camus applies a unique literary style as a power that deflects blame from Meursault, the antiheroic character. In order to disclaim the fault of Meursault, Camus incorporates several instances in which he leaves a greater sense of authority to nonliving objects, while further drawing attention away from the main character. Based on the implication of

“The Stranger,” written by the Algerian writer Albert Camus, is a novel about Meursault, a character who’s different and even threatening views on life take him to pay the highest price a person can pay: his life. This was Camus’ first novel written in the early 1940’s, in France, and it reflects the authors belief that there is no meaning in life and it is absurd for humans to try to find it places like religion. The main themes of the novel are irrationality of the universe and the meaningless of human life. During Meursault’s trial after killing the “Arab,” Meursault is questioned for several things that do not seem to have anything to do with the murder to a point where one wonders the actual reason for him to be in trial. Albert Camus professes his ideas on the absurd through Meursault in “the Stranger” to point out how pointless and irrational life actually is.

Meursault lacks the excitement and does not live life on the edge. Although, he seems like an honest man, when Raymond was hitting his mistress, and Marie wanted Meursault to get a police officer his reaction to her wish seem absurd. “...go find a police officer...I don’t like police officers”(Camus 36).If Meursault believed to have a simple life and living with honesty, he should have been able to realize that Raymond’s physical behavior was cause harm to another lady. Also, he is unable to differentiate between moralities, because as soon he denies helping helpless women in agony, his honesty is questioned. Due to the fact he can do the exact violence on Marie and question her character. Furthermore, Meursault’s ability to identify right and wrong is gone as soon as he pulls the trigger. He does not like a police officer, but yet he murders an Arab man. “...trigger gave...I fired four more times at the motionless body... the door of unhappiness”(59). As the body is lying motionless he loses his mind and morality. As he gave the first shot of the bullet he is automatically declared dead because he does not wish to have an association with police officers, but shooting four more times shows that his fear does not reside in him anymore. Humans still live, as long as they fear, but they die the minute they are carefree because their souls have received salvation from