Meursault is eventually convicted and sentenced to death because of his inability to conform to the societal expectations of French Algeria in the 1940’s. 3. Characters: Meursault- the protagonist and narrator of the novel, Meursault is a young shipping clerk who has detached himself from the world around him. He is indifferent
During the beginning of the novel, Meursault goes to his neighbor Raymond’s house. The visit results into a physical fight due to insults made towards Meursault. Relating to aspects on violence, this scene was made to show simple
This quote helps explain the narrator’s intense hatred for the old man’s eye and how he wanted it gone. And lastly, “There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.” (205) Helps illustrate both characters because the old man is now dead and the narrator was crazy enough to kill to get away from the eye.
Whenever he looks at the eye his blood becomes cold. Causing him to make the decision to take the life of the old man, to not look at it ever again. The author explains “First
Meursault is not an emotional person. Meursault often seems not to react to major events that happen to him. For example when his mom dies, he says, “Really, nothing had changed”(24). There is an obvious emotional disconnect. Either he was not close to his mother or her death had little to no effect on him.
Even when he shot the Arab on the beach, Meursault was not anxious
For what reason, one may ask; well, the terrible truth is that he killed because of his own delusions. He killed the man because of the man 's "vulture eye." However; it was not just on a whim that he murdered him, no, he spent many nights planning the victim 's demise. Throughout the whole story, it gives off undeniable vibes of suspense and intensity, which is further built by dramatic irony, along with desperate and delusional tones in which he speaks.
While walking to the beach, the hot sand underneath annoyed him while the blazing sun above him added great discomfort to his mental state. When Meursault attempted to go to the water to cool off, he ended up finding the Arab. When the Arab drew out the knife, Meursault ended up shooting him repeatedly. The quote, “The sun was the same as it had been the day I buried Maman, and like then, my forehead especially was hurting me, all the veins in it throbbing under the skin. It was this burning which I couldn’t handle anymore, that made me move forward.”
Three technology organizations that have undergone well-documented, major changes include Marissa Mayer becoming Yahoo's CEO in 2012, Ellen Pao's resignation as CEO from popular Internet website Reddit in 2015, and Steve Jobs returning to Apple in 1997 after being ousted from the very company he founded. These instances involve the hiring, resignation, or firing of top executives at major companies for various reasons. The circumstances surrounding each change, and the types of changes that occurred, are unique. According to Poole and Van de Ven (1995), these changes address regulated change (life cycle), planned change (teleology), dialectic change, and evolutionary change. In Mayer's instance, when she was hired in 2012, Yahoo
As Meursault perceives life contains no meaning, he is a hollow man who can not see the reality of life. He is much ignorant and lives in the present. “whole landscape shimmer with heat, it was inhumane and oppressive”(Camus 15).The sun represents the intimidating power of the natural worlds over human action. The sun is not repeated once, but many times during the funeral, which distracts Meursault’s attention and prevails the emotions, Meursault is unable to deal with himself. The sun is also the driving force, which makes Meursault murder the Arab man at the beach.
During the bland summer that leaves us empty with news, two new crimes have come up and surprised all of us. Both of these trials include the murder of two people. The first case, a person committing an act of patricide against a family member they knew well. The second, a case even more terrible: the killing of an Arab in the hands of a Frenchman. The killer’s name is Meursault.
The eye vexed him, and frightened him whenever he made contact. A mentally well and sane person would not be driven to kill and be caused so much psychological distress over an eye, or anything as low as a physical feature of a
(59) After long passages describing the painful violence of the sun, Camus’s transition into the murder is shockingly abrupt, provoking a sense of bewilderment at the unexpected randomness of the murder, conveying effectively the irrationality of Meursault’s murder of the man. However, during the trial, when Meursault reveals that he murdered the Arab only because of the sun, refusing to allow others impose their logical but false interpretations upon his life, “people laughed” (103) and even his own “lawyer threw up his hand” (103) as they are unable comprehend and accept such an irrational motivation. To protect themselves from this harsh reality of the universe, they can only fabricate and impose their own logical explanation for Meursault’s behavior. The prosecutor, for instance, is convinced Meursault murdered the man in cold blood, certain in the narrative he has constructed out of events completely unrelated to the murder, from Meursault’s “ignorance when asked Maman’s age” (99) to his association with a man of “doubtful morality” (99). In both cases, Meursault’s indifference for societal standards of morality has painted him as a man immoral and cold-hearted enough to premeditate the murder.
Where here Arab uses a knife to shine the sunlight to Meursault’s face. And the sad part here was that due to the sun he was forced to shoot the Arab four more times so that he could make sure that the sun is dissipated for the
Meursault notices that during the trial, “there was a lot said about [him], maybe more about [him] than about [his] crime” (98). By having Meursault 's personality be the focal point of the courtroom 's dialogue, Camus implies that Meursault 's persona plays a crucial role in his trial. Instead of focusing on the murder of the Arab, the prosecutor repeatedly mentions Meursault 's "dubious liaison"(94), his "insensitivity" (99) during Maman’s funeral, and his friendship with Raymond, who is a man "of doubtful morality" (99). Through the emphasis on Meursault 's -according to society- 'immoral ' ways, the prosecutor eliminates any sort of sympathy the jury has for Meursault. Following Marie 's testimony, the prosecutor once again exhibits his confidence that bias against Meursault will stem from hearing about his behaviour.
