Stranger than Fiction

For most people, the environment may have an effect on your mood and your actions. However, for Mersault, the main character from Albert Camus’ The Stranger, the effect that nature has on him is so tremendous that it influences him to commit the irrational murder of an Arab. Camus uses literary techniques and devices when describing Mersault’s killing of the Arab to highlight the extraordinary effect that Mersault’s physical stimuli have on him. Camus does so using imagery, similes,…

The Stranger by Albert Camus is a book that teaches a philosophical point of view on the meaning of life. The story is about a man referred to as Monsieur Meursault, who believes life is meaningless. Meursault is informed of his mother who had passed away and went to attend her funeral. He gives us details of why he feels life is meaningless by showing no emotion or remorse about the passing of his mother. He isn’t seen sobbing or bawling his eyes out for his mother and even refuses to see his…

French-Algerian columnist, Albert Camus was otherwise called a dramatist, writer, philosophical writer, and Nobel laureate. Born on 7 November, 1913 in French Algeria, Camus started his abstract vocation as a political writer, and additionally an on-screen character, chief and dramatist in his local place, Algeria. Later on, he wound up plainly required in the Resistance, as France in those days was involved amid the Second World War and after this amid the era of 1944-47; he likewise filled in…

novel. “The Foreigner” being one of the literal translations, appoints to Meursault being a foreigner to the land of Algeria as a Frenchman; “The Stranger” describes his mental isolation from fellow human beings and “The Outsider” is his ultimate detachment from the conventions of a humanistic society. Consequently, the society and people are also strangers to Meursault in his perspective, effectively making the detachment mutual. This title also described the manifestation of the author’s ideal…

Existential Crisis or Enlightenment? Does human existence hold any greater meaning? In the 1946 novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, the protagonist and narrator, Meursault, a french man detached and estranged from humanity questions just that. In the first part, the story starts in the setting of the town of Algiers in 1940s French occupied Algeria. It begins with the death of his mother, to which Meursault does not feel much towards. He returns from the vigil held at the home that his…

The title of The Stranger, by Albert Camus, points out the disconnects between both the characters of the story and the characters disconnects within themselves. Throughout the entire novel the characters connect on a very shallow level and only when they are in need of something. This inevitably leads to them never really understanding each other but just being with each other to escape loneliness and fit in with the social standards. The novel also exhibits how the characters sell themselves…

“On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but just in time, I remembered that I had killed a man." (Camus 64). Albert Camus wrote “The Stranger”, which is influenced by the philosophical view of existentialism. Existentialist believe life is not predetermined, our actions are independent of outside influence, humans are free to make life choices, and the significance of life is self-defined. The protagonist of the story, Meursault, is the worst existential mate due to his absence of…

in The Stranger by Albert Camus and the comparisons Santiago Nasar to Jesus and the priest in The Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez are religious instances used to highlight the inability of the protagonists, Meursault and Santiago, to conform with society. In these novels, religion is a major theme, in The Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Christianity is the practiced by the people in the town, the norms of their society were based around their religion. In The Stranger, the…

In the existentialist novel, The Stranger, Camus uses the heat as a motif and symbol to focus on the day of his mother’s funeral, the day he committed the crime, and Mersault’s feelings that he cannot deal with. The novel was about a man whose mother had died and he didn’t believe that he cared until he got flashbacks and killed a man. Soon after his mother died Meursault is making friends and going out. He gets into some trouble and ends up in jail. He goes through trial and doesn’t make it.…

or worth. One such novel is The Stranger by Albert Camus. The story describes a young man with a rather indifferent view on the world whose life is permanently altered by one rash decision: murder. After impulsively killing a man on a beach, Meursault is put through a series of tedious trials in which his fate is to be settled. The verdict is unfavorable and Meursault is assumingly put to death though the result of his trial is never made clear. Although The Stranger is a text with relatively…