The Stranger Critical Analysis

While reading The Stranger I noticed that traits that Albert Camus character depicts in the book are closely related to the theories of Sigmund Freud on moral human behavior. Albert Camus portrays his character of Meursault as a numb, emotionless person that seems to mindlessly play out his role in society, acting in a manner that he sees as the way he’s supposed to act, always living in the moment with his instincts driving him, and if the right circumstance presents itself the primal deep seeded animal will come out. I believe that most of the character’s traits fall under Freud’s notion of the Id and Ego mental apparatus, and don’t believe that his idea of the super-ego is represented in this book.

In the story “The Stranger” by Albert Camus, the belief that the themes of loss and retrieval are at the core of Mersault’s mythology, and that they illumine the notion of exile to which he returns so often is widely discussed. I however do not believe that either one of those themes has anything to do with the Mersault and the exile to which he returns to so often, rather I believe that Mersault’s own attitude is the reason for the exile he experiences in the story.

The Stranger The Stranger exhibits a society that has confined itself with a specific set of social standards that dictate the manner in which people are supposed to act. This ideology determines the level of morality, and how much emphasis should placed on following this certain "ethical" structure. Albert Camus's main character, Meursault, is depicted as a nonconformist that is unwilling to play society's game. Through Meursault's failure to comply with society's values and conform to the norm, he is rejected and also condemned to death by society.

The Article “A Stranger in Strange Lands” written by Lucille P. McCarthy is an examination of the writing process. This article follows a college student through a twenty-one month study to determine how the students writing ability is affected as he transitions from one classroom to another. Focusing on specific writing processes in different types of classrooms,this article hopes to uncover the importance and effect of writing towards a specific audience within a particular genre and to offer a better understanding to how students continue to learn to write throughout college.

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.

The Stranger by Albert Camus is a novel about a man named Meursault who sees the world as a place of no hope for the living human being. The setting of the story takes place in 1940s Through Meursault’s selfish behavior, he goes through a series of events that are formed by his nonchalant attitude. On one day in particular, when he's out with a couple of friends he decides to shoot an Arabian man and soon after being charged guilty of murder. Camus is an Existentialist philosopher, but also an Absurdist as well. Existentialism focuses on free will and expressing the individual to be oneself to choose their own actions. Existentialist’s tend to back out with the belief

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

The mood of the passage when Meursault is alone on the beach is established on the first line, “There was the same dazzling red glare” (Camus 57). Immediately, the sun is placed at the center of attention as it is the origin of the glare that Meursault was referring to. This makes the mood feel arduous due to the intensity of the sun’s “dazzling red glare” in addition to the fact that the sun stays up for a significant period of time during the day (Camus 57). As a result, it creates no expectations that the sun will cease its effect on Meursault soon and a precedent is created that the persistent effect of the sun will have a significant impact on his future decisions.

The theme I chose for my project was “The Search for Meaning.” To express my chosen theme, I chose to make a collage. In Camus’s book The Stranger, Meursault is sentenced to death for shooting and killing an Arab. Throughout the book, he tries to come up with ways to get out of his consequence. Eventually he accepts his fate, realizing that everyone is born and everyone dies and there is no real meaning to life. I portrayed this idea with a collection of pictures and quotes that depict Camus’ ideas on the meaning of life.

Albert Camus creates a series of characters in The Stranger whose personality traits and motivations mirror those that are overlooked upon by the average man. Camus develops various characters and scenarios that show true humanity which tends to have been ignored due to the fact of how typical it has become. Camus incorporates abominable personality traits of the characters, variety, consistency, and everyone’s fate.

“The Little Stranger” is a 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters. It is a ghost story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire, England in the 1940s. This novel features a male narrator, a country doctor who makes friends with a family with faded fortunes left simply with a very old estate that is crumbling around them. The stress of reconciling the state of their finances with the familial responsibility of keeping the estate coincides with perplexing events which may or may not be of supernatural origin, culminating in tragedy.

Meursault condemns the sun when describing his surroundings displaying the negativity the sun exerts. He describes the weather, centering it on the sun. He describes the conditions outside once out there and how the sun is “bearing down, making the whole landscape shimmer with heat” (15). He describes the heat and “inhumane and oppressive” (15). Camus’

Firstly, Camus incorporates symbolism in the novel in order to persuade the readers in to identifying Meursault as an anti-hero. Throughout the entire novel, a major symbol that has popped up on numerous accounts is the weather and or heat. In the novel, the heat would usual describe his emotions and how he feels, so in this case it would be annoyance due to the extreme heat. It increases over the course of the novel till the climax, when Meursault shoots the Arab man. The reader can clearly see how much the weather effects Meursault in the novel, and for a man with few emotions it is rather peculiar. It is almost as though Meursault is using the sun and heat to show the feelings he has. The sun basically controls all of his emotions and the

Many people often base their opinions on a person by judging his whole life in general and his attitude towards life without caring about who the person really is deep down inside. This unfair reasoning can occur in the courtroom when people are put on trial and the judge and the jury must delve into the life of the accused and determine if he is a hazard to society. Occasionally, the judge and jury are too concerned with the accused’s past that they become too biased and give an unfair conviction and sentencing. In his novel, The Stranger, Albert Camus uses the courtroom as a symbol to represent society that judges the main character, Meursalt, unfairly to illustrate how society forms opinions based on one’s past.

Close to the begin of the part Meursault says 'the high temperature of the sun made me snooze off a bit' (53). In spite of the fact that the statement "made" proposes that the heart is controlling or driving this activity, the certainty he is dozing demonstrates that he is loose, which is underscored by the utilization of the saying 'nap'. From that point on, Meursault portrays the sun and hotness more adversely. For instance, he says, 'the high temperature was pushing full against me' (58) and 'I felt the impact of its hot breath all over' (58). Camus' utilization of material symbolism puts the peruser in Meursault's shoes, and demonstrates that he is feeling claustrophobic and feeble. This raises strain in light of the fact that it demonstrates that Meursault is under extraordinary stretch, so he could lash out without