Essay on The Stranger: Changes in Meursault

In Albert Camus’ The Stranger, Meursault is seen as a very unique character, but not in a good way. Throughout the novel, he continually fails to show normal human emotions to things like his mother’s death, Marie’s love, and the man he killed. Most people in his town, along with the reader at first, are not able to reason out his actions but as the final events of the novel unfold, the reader begins to see Meursault in a different light. The novel starts out with Meursault getting a telegram saying

In the novel, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, Meursault’s murder of the Arab helps to illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole. The Stranger tells the story of Meursault, a man who passively lives his life until he kills a man and is then put on trial and sentenced to death. The murder of the Arab is the climax of the novel and signals a shift in Meursault’s thought and character. Through Meursault’s killing of the Arab, Camus brings attention to the absurdity of social expectations and shows

A Stranger to Society In Camus’s novel, The Stranger, Meursault demonstrates the characteristics that conflict with the general qualities of a hero which makes Meursault an anti-hero. A hero is usually the protagonist and displays determination, a caring nature, and emotions. Meursault, on the other hand, is emotionally detached and does not care about most things. Nonchalantly walking through life, Meursault appears indifferent towards social interactions and emotions in general. The attitude on

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

exemplified by The Stranger and “The Myth of

Taisha Pacheco 8/14/2015 Mrs. Bauman AP lit Block F The Stranger The major theme in the Stranger is “absurdism”. In the Stranger, the main settings are: Meursault’s home, the beach where the Arab was murdered, the courthouse, and eventually jail. The Stranger is taken place in Algeria in the 1940’s. The prosecutor characterizes Meursault as a murderer, as a monster. In page one hundred and two, the prosecutor states: “ For if in the course of what has been a long career I have strongly as today

The Stranger in Us All: How Camus’s Classic Connects to Other Philosophical Works Macy French Tusculum College Author’s Note This paper was prepared for Dr. Harlow’s Quest for Meaning class at Tusculum College Albert Camus once said “Forever I shall be a stranger to myself” (Camus, 1942/2004, p 453). In his classic novel, The Stranger, the main character is the archetypal absurd man who lives only in the realm of his own aesthetic until being faced with his own death (Camus, 1942)

The Stranger The Stranger was originally written in French. When Stuart Gilbert translated the novel, he came across a small problem. “The title of Camus’ classic novel is difficult to render into English because the French word bears the connotations of both ‘stranger’ and ‘foreigner’ at the same time, and each of these concepts is at play in the novel.” (Mairowitz1) Finding the right translation was crucial because the title is symbolic. “The Stranger symbolizes the theme of the

Curtis Poindexter Professor Slattum English M01B 11 December 2014 Literary Analysis: The Stranger The novel The Stranger is a first-person account of the life of M. Meursault from the time of his mother 's death up to a time evidently just before his execution for the murder of an Arab. It was written by Albert Camus in 1942. Meursault however, is not your typical hero of a story; rather an antihero. He is neither good nor bad, and harbors no emotion. He goes through his life with a preconceived

“Myth of Sisyphus” and “The Stranger”, French author Albert Camus vividly portrays parallelism between his fictional characters. Through Meursault’s narrative and time spent in jail in “The Stranger”, Meursault reveals his emotionally removed temperament, earning himself the status of an outsider. In contrast to Meursault, Sisyphus was never labeled as an outsider, but did not bring joyous thoughts among the gods; Sisyphus was a burden to the gods. Although Meursault and Sisyphus have their differences