Sonnet 29 Albert Camus Analysis

Similarly, Albert Camus’ presents his character of Meursault as someone who is distant and out of touch with everybody else. This is illuminated through the narrator’s statement: “I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else” after the attorney allegedly didn’t understand him. The repetition of the fragment “like everybody else” implies that the narrator, Meursault is re-assuring himself that he is able to be a fully functioning member of society.
There is sufficient evidence to suggest that the character of Tony Webster in Barnes’ postmodern novel is insecure as he forms prejudgements on other characters he meets throughout the novel. Such is evident when Tony spends his weekend at Veronica’s home …show more content…
This sonnet is in typical Shakespearian form; the opening quatrain begins with the interrogative “when” which establishes a conditional argument and alludes to the sonneteers frustration with his current “outcast state”. The use of “state” could be interpreted differently by different readers; it could allude to the matter that the condition of the sonneteer is notably morose because of the envy he possesses for the fair youth, or that the sonneteer has no home since he has been “outcast” by the community he once knew. [ 4] shakespeare-online.com also notes that the morose tone in this sonnet could be a result of an attack on Shakespeare by a dramatist named Robert Greene who heavily criticized Shakespeare by calling him a “Johannes factotum” (jack of all trades) in his deathbed diary. The closing line of the opening quatrain; that the speaker is “look(ing) upon (him) self and cursing (his) fate” provides the reader with some explanation as to why the sonneteer is isolated. This phrase implies that the