Meursault shows his lack of emotional attachment to people: "I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings"( page 41). Meursault shows the regrets of his nature but also, at the same time, explains that it’s not going to change. Rather than focusing on finding someone to spend his life with, Meursault would rather find someone who can always keep him pampered. Meursault again shows his regret for his actions when he says, "I wanted to try to explain to him that it was because of the sun, the sea, the light, in fact, everything, that I had simply loved him with no personal motive" (Page 68). Meursault shows his lack of care for those whom he loved, but at the same time shows that Meursault might not be able to fully control what he does, but rather does everything out of impulse, therefore making him regret his actions in some situations.
One of the most important passages within the novel is when Meursault repeatedly defies the chaplain in the cell. It serves as a pinnacle for the entire story, and grants readers a look into the main characters state of mind. In this passage, Meursault comes to a dramatic realization of who he is through an existential epiphany, and with thorough analysis the overall significance of the passage to the story is revealed. In the passage the chaplain visits Meursault much to Meursault’s displeasure.
Jacob (5;0), on the other hand, had 3/4 (75%) performance with the English declaratives and 3/4 (75%) correct judgments with the Spanish declaratives. In an interesting fashion, Jacob consistently assigned a judgment of “silly” in two contexts. For example, Jacob had issues with sentence 2a) “They always put on socks”. He stated that this description was silly when describing the younger kids (who weren’t putting on their socks), yet Jacob also stated that the description was silly when used to describe the older kids (who were clearly shown putting on socks).
The Stranger, written by Albert Camus, It follows the story of our tragic hero, Meursault, shortly after his mother dies through the events that lead to him being sentenced to death. Camus uses the motif of weather to express Meursault’s emotions. The Stranger shows how even when a person does not explicitly express emotion they are shown in some way. How emotions are expressed is a window to a person's personality. I will first discuss how Meursault appears emotionless, than how Camus uses the motif of weather to express Meursault’s emotions for him and lastly what impact this makes.
Aside from the sun, the issue is also focused on how many times Meursault shoots him, which is not once but, “I fired four shots more into the inert body, on which they left no visible trace. And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing” (Camus 39). The court tries to connect this shooting with his mother’s death and attempts to say there are psychological problems. However, he is not remorseful of his crime even after knowing he was going to prison. This behavior is deemed as irrational and detachment from mankind, but Meursault himself inadequate to feeling emotion appears indifferent to the whole
Through the use of diction, Meursault perceives life is meaningless, which leads him to have the absence of strong bonding with acquaintance around him. He indicates that he lacks empathy from personal and social level. Meursault is a simple man who lives his life in a stickler type and changes annoy him. As the novel introduces Meursault mother being dead, he shows lack of concern and a burden to visit his mother for the last time. “Maman died today...
He is an insouciant being who has no logic passion or ambition to accomplish anything logically. For example, he kills a man, for the simple reason that he shined sunlight into his eyes. “ The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat, what he believes to be true must determine his action”(Caraway, 125). Since Meursault’s idea of truth is flawed by his lack of care, his actions have no logic behind them. Due to the nature of Meursault’s character, his act of murder is considered both unethical and immoral, and he is justified to be subjected to a punishment of similar degree.
In the novel, “The Stranger,” by Albert Camus, Meursault represents an immoral character. Most readers would believe him to be psycho or immoral and in most cases they were correct. Meursault is an emotionless silhouette of a man, but it doesn’t mean he was evil. In some ways, I sympathize with Meursault as a character because was misunderstood in many ways. Society judged him and thought he as evil because he had lack of emotion.
“Meursault shows passion for the first time, vigorously defending the value of his life. Meaning is found in living, argues Meursault, and he will not give up on the meaning of his life just because he’s scared of dying. After the priest leaves, Meursault realizes that he’s happy – that living is a privilege, and that no matter when he dies, he will relish his moments of life.” ( Accardi Max) Although he began feeling something towards the thought of death, he realized that he is living and when you live, you die and that made him happy because he has been living all his life up until that
He makes a strong point saying "no matter whether you die at thirty or at seventy, since in either case other men and women will naturally go on living and for thousands of years. " Meursault feels that since death is soon to come to him, he is using this kind of mindset to have positive thoughts of just going along with the execution and understanding the concept of living. Meursault denies his understanding differences between execution and natural death. He started to accepts the concept of hope. What tortures him is for the fact that hop is a illusion that can change the fact of his death.
Meursault explains in this his thoughts towards the mere insignificance of any action and therefore of human existence causing him to confront the meaninglessness of human life. And as a result, Meursault returns to the beach alone, and, without reason, shoots Raymond’s mistress’s
Human nature calls for the need to divulge deeper into the meaning of an individual’s existence and the reasons behind all actions taken in life. An introspective look in one’s existence, displayed in Camus’s The Stranger by the non-conformist Meursault, highlights a seemingly meaningless existence when confronted with one’s own mortality. After murdering a man, Meursault, once thought to be apathetic towards all aspects of life, becomes a complex symbol for the struggle of human meaning. This idea continually emerges in contemporary society due to the question of why humans seemingly live to die. Camus masterfully makes a question of human existence through mortality and societal restraints in a skillfully written short novel making The Stranger
The themes of death explored using absurdism in The Stranger is shown with a general disregard for death by Meursault and the strange way he sees life based on these existentialist views. The Stranger is a perfect example of an existentialist novel that was written for that time period, as during this time around the area of France and Europe there was an existentialist movement that Albert Camus, the author, was involved in.
As the French, absurdist philosopher Albert Camus once said, “Being different is not a bad thing. It means you are brave enough to be yourself.” That summed up with our topic, which is absurdity through human existence, a human being should tolerate the absurd condition of human existence. Albert Camus introduces Meursault the protagonist and narrator of the book The Stranger, who is a stranger through society eyes and the title point out his personality in the world of absurdity. Meursault is indifferent and alienates young man to others.
In his novel The Stranger, Albert Camus creates an emotionally incapable, narcissistic, and, at times, sociopathic character named Meursault to explore and expose his philosophies of Existentialism and Absurdism. Throughout the story Meursault follows a philosophical arc that, while somewhat extreme - from unemotional and passive to detached and reckless to self-reflective - both criticizes the dependent nature of human existence and shows the journey through the absurd that is our world. In the onset of The Stranger, following his mother’s death, Meursault acts with close to utter indifference and detachment. While the rest of “maman’s”(9) loved ones express their overwhelming grief, Meursault remains unphased and, at times, annoyed at their
