Meursault's Accomplishments

People have been shaped in lots of different ways by the time period they live in. Politics, culture, and economics get shifted by what is happening world wide. In the United States during The Great Depression people took a democratic look on government because it offered the quickest relief to people in need. However, World War II may have been the biggest event that changed people’s lives. People across the world became refugees because of the destruction, soldiers endured horrible battles and conditions, and Jews had a genocide committed against them by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. The war caused terror through most of Europe, parts of Africa, and across the Pacific Ocean. Albert Camus’, a writer at the time of World War II, wrote The Stranger, a piece that exemplified in showing how people were shaped by their era. His character Meursault was created by the time period The Stranger was written in (the middle of World War II). Meursault’s is Camus’ way of displaying the experiences of …show more content…
Meursault wasn’t just an embodiment of that time period. He is an embodiment of all time periods, just at different places in the world. Right now he would be about the Middle East. People are dying, people are seeking refuge in other countries, and certain groups of people are being oppressed and hated by a majority. People have been trying to fix these problems since World War II to no avail, and as long as people aren’t unified across the world, these problems will continue to exist. Once everyone in the world is codependent on each other, these problems go away because they are simply unable to happen, because if people start fighting, they cannot keep up their lifestyles because of their dependence. The Meursault character should be eliminated in the world, but with the world not equal, it’s almost