Title and Character Analysis of The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Stranger: Character and Title Analysis In Albert Camus’, The Stranger, the characters in the novel are individually unique in ways that bring out the positive and negative aspects of each other. When examining their traits you get the deeper meaning of things and what they stand for. The major characters in this novel are Meursault, Raymond Sintes, and Marie Cardona. Meursault shows no emotion through everything that goes on in his life such as a death. Raymond Sintes is a rude person and only thinks about himself. In contrast to both Meursault and Raymond, Marie is a loving and loyal girl that will stick with a person till the very end. The main character, Meursault, in this novel is a guy who shows no emotion no matter what is occurring in the world around him. Events such as a death of a parent, writing a letter to torment someone or convicting a murder don’t even faze him. When he received a telegram saying, â€Å"Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours (Camus 1)† he didn’t show any real emotion. Meursault just simply didn’t care. Also, when studying his actions one conclusion leads to that he is honest, but a little too honest. At his mother’s funeral he wouldn’t even shed a tear because in his mind it would be known as a lie. He felt no emotion, so if he were to cry a false tear it would show a lying exterior in which he didn’t want to create (Analysis Article). Next, Meursault as a character doesn’t know the distinction between good and bad, right orShow MoreRelatedLiterary Analysis: How Meursault Is Indifferent in the Stranger, by Albert Ca mus874 Words   |  4 PagesLiterary analysis: How Meursault is indifferent in The Stranger, by Albert Camus Although Meursault is the title character and narrator of Albert Camus’ short novel The Stranger, he is also a somewhat flat character. His apparent indifferent demeanor may be a convenience to Camus, who mainly wanted to display his ideas of absurdism. And as a flat character, Meursault is not fully delineated: he lacks deep thought and significant change. His purpose is that of a first-person narrator whose actionsRead MoreHuman Relations in Camus Novel, The Outsider, from an Existentialist View2123 Words   |  9 Pagesmovements across time. The human relations with God, love, society, death etc†¦ are relations that human make to live his life. I study in this paper the human relations in The Outsider novel by Albert Camus from an existentialist view. I want to study Meursault relations who is the main character in Albert Camus’s novel The Outsider , Meursault is being executed because he kills an arab person, but the main reason is that he does not cry at hi s mother’ funeral and lives his life as there is nothingRead MoreExistentialism vs Essentialism23287 Words   |  94 Pagesworld is indifferent towards humanity. The definition of existentialism is often hard to pin down, as there are conflicting views within existentialist thought, variations upon the ideas, and a number of so-called existentialists who rejected the title. Perhaps the central feature of existentialism that can be seen in these points is the  focus on the individual. Existentialists reject the idea that there is a fundamentally true human nature. Instead, they point out that those who seek to understand