The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Stranger, Albert CamusThe Stranger, Albert Camus reader gluing book is all nigh an inane activities of Meursault the protagonist. The displace of this book is in Algiers in the beginning of this wonderful novel we encounter the decease of Maeursaults sire in M arngo. The author of this book wrote it in the low person style thus allowing the reader to view Meursault to be the furbish up individual that propels all the unfolding in the novel. For this matter, the author relays sequence of pull down outts that invokes Meursault to contract a friend, he is im prisoned and his til nowtual death. With regard to all that Meursault does and does non do convicts the reader to call him an anti-hero. This paper seeks to discuss the anti-hero theme in The Stranger as written by Albert Camus.Death of Meursaults Mother recrudesce one of the book describes Meursault as a person of indifferent towards sense and interaction with others. When he receives the news of his mothers death h e is not even carried away with emotions as one who has lost an important person in his life, (Bloom 20). In addition he only focuses on the physical and possible details surrounding the death of his mother. He is also depicted by the author as one who loves weather and other beautiful sceneries. In relation to this, he does not heart eachthing neither grief nor sombreness during his mothers funeral procession, (Camus 70). He also beliefs that, the world is importeeless and purposeless the feelings of an anti-hero person and therefore, Meursault fulfills the anti-hero theme.The incomparable character of Meursault to certain events compels the reader to claim that Meursault is an anti-hero. For representative, before the death of his mother Meursault was looking forward to spending the weekend with Marie. After getting the reading that his mother is dead, he appears heartless, doesnt express every grief or even get touch on, in fact he goes for swimming in a public beach spen ding good time with Marie. He doesnt rail line affected by the death of his mother, he does stand with solidarity for his mother a complete character of anti-hero person.Meursaults conversation with his pommel and other co- reckoners with regard to the death of his mother is cl incessantlyly avoided by Meursault. Furthermore, he changes the subject after(prenominal) tolerant a very short response. As much as his work mates express concern about the death of Meursaults mother, Meursault himself is adamant and does feel anything he continues working as usual. Meursault has a different personality which all in all contrasts that of a foc employ and a determined person, (Enotes 5). He displays traits of a distress in life throughout the book.Lust and Lack of emotionsAlbert portrays Meursault as somebody who is lustrous and having no feelings or passion. When he goes swimming with Marie we are told that he was intensely aroused at any moment he sees her. Consequently, after swimming , they all hurry to Meursaults apartment, spend the night together till the following(a) day, (McCarthy 40). When Marie asks him if he really loved her, he replied that it doesnt mean anything and therefore, he doesnt call back so. With regard to this event, Marie sensed Meursault as her hero who could eventually marry her hardly it turned out that he was not.Meursault is a person who lacks any aspiration to accomplish anything substantial in life. For instance, when he is offered a position in a new office to be opened by his boss in Paris, Meursault replies that it is all the same to him. In addition when Marie asks Meursault if he wants to felicitous her, he says that it doesnt pull in any deference mean that he has no feelings for her, (Sagi 20). Meursault is a non performer and therefore, an anti-hero character.Meursault is also portrayed as one who cannot flip a distinction between two conflicting situations ineffective to decide. For instance when he is given a gun by Raymond he has no capacity to neither to shoot nor not shoo. He is unable to make out the difference that exists between the two alternatives. When he murdered an Arab does not affect him in any way, it is inevitable that Meursault doesnt make do the order and meaning of life. His acts are irrational all describing somebody who is unable to accomplish a meaningful act given that Meursaults killing of the Arab was an act out of no reason, (Schwerner 25). These are actions of an anti-hero person.Arrest and ExecutionPart two of The Stranger begins with the nab of Meursault for killing the Arab. When the court appoints a lawyer to investigate about Meursault, he establishes that Meursault is insensitive. When he is also taken to the examining magistrate, the magistrate concluded that Meursault has a hardened and irrevocable soul. It was also established that Meursault never believed in God and he never knew what caused to act the way he acted. Heroes believe in God and constitut e a clear self considering, but with this man Meursault, everything is different. He is an anti-hero and doesnt understand what he does with his life, (Showalter 15).When Marie visits Meursault in jail, she encourages him to have hope because she believes he will be acquitted and that they will get married as soon as he is out of prison. On the other hand Meursault is interested in mournful prisoners sitting besides him. When Marie leaves, Meursault sends a letter to her informing her that the governance will not allow her to visit Meursault anymore. This indicates that Meursault is hopeless and does not know the meaning of life which a recipe of all heroes who have ever lived.Meursault confinement and imprisonment does not incite any guilt or regret over his actions, he only focuses on hi practical and physical situation rather than the emotional elements. He longs for nature, ocean, sex, and cigarettes rather than his freedom. As a hero one should think of how to get out of the prison and not issues that cannot him get acquitted. It is only in prison that Meursault starts to know about himself as to how he can adjust and live in any environment, (Sparknotes 3). Heroic minds have a vision of what living conditions they need, and strives to achieve the perceived condition, Meursault is not one of them, he has an anti-heroic minds.During Meursaults trials he is surprised to see tribe parked in the courtroom. Furthermore he passively observed the judgments leveled against him. Without even sentiment of how he might help himself out of the prison or to get acquitted, he begins to ponder the fact of his inevitable death. In fact, he concludes that there is difference between dying soon by being executed and dying decades later of a natural death. This kind of thinking is inclined to failures in life, somebody who dont have hope and therefore no meaning for him to live. He is not a hero and therefore he can not live to the fact that one day he can have a bett er life full of meaning and hope, (Warsh 27).ConclusionIn conclusion, Camus managed to display the anti-hero them in the book The Stranger. Meursault specifically was used to display different situation in which human beings are unable to think rationally and make rational decisions. The behavior and characters attached to Meursault are evident enough that a person can deviate from the rightful(a) line of life of being determined, hopeful and ready to confront any situation for him come out successful. It is true that we have people who completely lack emotions and feelings and this is so strange as human life is concerned hence The stranger.