Dorian's Search For Meaning In The Stranger By Albert Camus

This becomes the belly of the whale. Dorian obsesses with hiding the painting after noticing how ugly the painting makes him look. Dorian’s grandfather curses him because of his mother and father’s marriage. The boy seeks self-purpose and acceptance, however, as soon as Lord Henry enlightens him about the inevitable curse of aging Dorian breaks into tears. The Road to trials accomplishes demand hardships and determination as Dorian’s age progresses. The young man had no idea of the power he possess by his beauty alone and this sends him into the life of Hedonism. Lord Henry becomes the goddess in Dorian’s journey because Lord Henry makes sure that Dorian remains knowledgeable and happy as the center of his ‘ innocent experiment ’ . Enjoying …show more content…
This man’s life had no purpose except to go along with the motions. Meursault's nonchalant and disinterest in everything further proves the point that people can search their whole life and never find their special purpose. “ I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.” Meursault hardly accomplishes anything in his life, but he does end another at the cost of his own afterward. Meursault’s relationships can hardly get past the physical because he does not understand the purpose of …show more content…
His “detached” self thought nothing of the crime. It should have been out of desperation that he shot the Arab like any other author would describe it, but not Albert Camus. Any other author would have made Meursault seem more human so the audience could sympathize with the protagonist, but instead, the audience read a book about a man with attachment issues and how society frowns upon the deviant so much so that they are put to death for being the way they are. The authors wrote about Meursault's road of trials as being a regularly occurring thing, for example, the heart causing discomfort or his girlfriend asking too many questions. The protagonist own psychological and unconscious mark him different from the rest of society. This difference terrifies humans because one does not know what to do or what one can do in a situation where one does not know what to so. Humans are creatures of familiarity and if they find something different then themselves they study is to become superior to it or simply kill it. This is human nature, what humans do not understand becomes their enemy unless it can be made to work for man. They thought Meursault to be different so his path became terrifyingly clear. Meursault's ultimate boon appears during the trial, he seems to calm. His disinterest causes nervousness and the trial to morphs from a trial of killing an Arab to a trial