Meursault

Meursault experiences the world as it happens around him, he cares not to look towards the future nor does he lament the past. Meursault lives in the present, however, he does not see the present as most do. Instead of having strong emotions and feelings Meursault looks at the present through cold logic and does not attach feelings to anything or anyone. Meursault even goes as far as killing someone yet feeling no remorse for doing so, he views his own arrest and trial as more of an inconvenience

examines the theme of justice through the eyes of Meursault, a shipping clerk living in 1940s Algiers. Meursault, the protagonist, is a character who places no value in religion and the importance on right and wrong; as a result, his amoral nature influences Meursault to do things such as behave cold and distant at his mother’s funeral and help his neighbor, Raymond Sintes, in beating his ex-mistress and attack Arabs. These actions makes Meursault a stranger to the society that later in the novel

surprise of the caretaker as he did not expect such a response. Symbolism/foreshadowing - “with the sun bearing down, making the whole landscape shimmer with heat, it was inhuman and oppressive.”(15) First time the sun was mentioned, distracting Meursault from his mother’s funeral and paves way for a seemingly irrational excuse for his future actions. Simile - “[Perez] crumpled like a rag doll.”(18) Comparing an old man fainting to a rag doll and emphasized his care for Meursault’s mother as he was

within society, as well as the consequences that arise from not following the moral guidelines imposed by it. From the beginning, the author presents Meursault as an outsider. Previously translated as The Estranged One, The Outsider, and The Foreigner, there is a sense of ambiguity when interpreting the title in relation to the character of Meursault, however with careful examination, Camus’ attempt at glorifying the seclusion felt by one who does not adhere to modern societal standards and exposing

Amanda Glassman English 12 10/20/15 Meursault Portrays a Teenager As I stood overlooking the edge of a steep, mountainous cliff, I noticed the waves gradually growing taller. In Hawaii, on this particular day, the waves seemed choppier than normal. Out of fear, I automatically associated the bottom of the cliff with death. On the other hand, my friend had a different mentality. Her eyes glistened as she gazed down. I could see her eagerness to dive straight into the ocean. Without even holding

the one dying.” (Page 114, Chapter 5) My favorite quote from the book, it sums up really who Meursault is as person and what his take is on life. He pretty much is saying that essence doesn’t matter one bit to him, and shouldn’t matter to anyone, because in the end we’re all dying, some sooner than others. We all have the same starting point between a woman legs, but we all have our different ending. Meursault is saying that your actions don’t really matter and what you do with your life or in your

Stranger, the character Meursault, makes an interesting statement as a man who thinks that life is pointless. Under theorization, Meursault states, "I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily for a hundred years in prison." (Meursault 79)With this quote, there are many various topics to elaborate on, such as, how Meursault reached this conclusion, the meaning of the quote, and what the realization means for a man who thinks life is meaningless. Meursault wanders about his cell

they will find that only 12%- a mere 15 out of 123 total pages- of the novel are devoted to circumstances surrounding Maman’s death and funeral. Meursault leads his readers into thinking that Maman’s death should mean more to him than it does; but on the contrary, it means less. Her death is an (in)significant annoyance that continues to annoy Meursault even once he returns to work after his four-day

appropriately to the novel’s main character, Meursault. Meursault is a stranger in this novel, nobody really knows too much about him and his personal life. It seems as if not even his own girlfriend knew much about him. Meursault is more of an observer than a sharing type of person. This can be part of the reason of why he is such a stranger to other people. If someone is a stranger to you it means that you don’t know who they are. That seems to be the case with Meursault as nobody really know who he really

Murderers 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