The Stranger Essay

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

Fallon AP Lit and Comp August 27, 2015 Is Meursault Merciless? The cultural values of The Stranger’s main character, Meursault, bring about controversial viewpoints from all audiences. Echoing the title of the book Meursault lives his life as a stranger, detached from the world around him. In this novel, Albert Camus creates a society dependent on emotional and materialistic needs. However, Meursault, as a character, illustrates a point of view that is independent of emotion. Thus, he does not

In 1942, French-Algerian author Albert Camus wrote the world renowned novel, The Stranger. It depicts an emotionless and unsentimental antagonist, Mersault. In The Stranger, Mersault is a single man who lives a mundane and routine life, like that of an existentialist. Existentialism is a theory that has kept philosophers debating for the past seventy years on whether Mersault and Camus both exhibit the qualities of one, in a question that will be put to rest by credible and informative articles

One of the main events of the novel “The Stranger” is centered around a trial is which Meursault is tried for murder. At this time, the scene is set in a large court room with many spectators of the public, the jury, and the media. As the judge enters, the trial begins as the prosecutor states facts in attempts to sentence Meursault. He uses various different strategies to do this. The main way is to use Meursault's reaction to Maman’s death as a way to connect to the emotions he was feeling at the

In the Stranger, there’s a lot of literary devices being used throughout the story, some that the author focuses mainly on are imagery, foreshadow and simile. This shows that Meursault pays attention to insignificant objects throughout the story. Meursault mentions insignificant objects throughout the story such as; one imagery that was used throughout the Stranger, it says “ I ran so as not to miss the bus.” Then it says“ It was probably because of all the rushing around, and on top of that the

The Stranger by Albert Camus, begins by Meursault’s mother dying. Meursault does not express any anguish towards the death, this introduces the theme, life is meaningless. The only thing that life guarantees is death, why live if you’re ultimately working towards the inevitable. The theme is shown early on in the book after his mother’s funeral when he thought, “Mother was buried now, tomorrow I’d be going back to work as usual. Really, nothing had changed,” (Camus 30). This indicates that death

When reading Albert Camus’s novel The Stranger one understands the protagonist, known as Meursault, to be central to the understanding of the novel. To the reader, Meursault detaches himself from his own emotions and from others making him unable to experience normal human connections. He fails

Student 3 Professor M. Fiore World Literature 24 September 2017 The Stranger “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don 't know. I got a telegram from the home: ‘Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.’ That doesn 't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.” (1.1.1) In The Stranger, Albert Camus sets the stage for the character of Meursault. Meursault, being the main character, portrays an individual who struggles with himself in functioning and reacting to daily situations

The Stranger by Albert Camus is inspired by the Holocaust. After World War II ended, philosophies such as absurdism were created as a result. The title The Stranger signifies Meursault’s alienation from society by his beliefs in both absurdism and existentialism. The Stranger took place during World War II where thousands died and the death toll was off the charts. This influenced Camus’s writing a great deal. His background of living a poor life, almost near death from contracting tuberculosis

The Stranger. He still sat in the back of the bus, gazing thoughtfully at his phone. Steve walked down the bus aisle to the same seat he had sat in the previous day, and just then, as he sat down, he heard a resounding ringtone from the back seat, “Yes, I like piña coladas and gettin’ caught in the rain, I'm not much into health food, I am into champag-” Steve had to stifle a laugh from behind his hand, passing it as a fit of coughs. The catchy, if somewhat cliché ringtone was cut short when The