Personally I don't understand Meursault at all. Its like he does the opposite of what or how your suppose to act in life. He doesn't really hang on to anything or anyone he just is concerned about himself and what he does. When Meursault mother died, he never really felt anything towards it. The day after the funeral, he just carries on with life like nothing have ever happened. Always when he says ¨Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.¨ That just shows how he bad a human he is to not even know when his own mother had died. When Maria and Meursault caught Raymond beating on a girl, Meursault didn't do a single thing about it. At least he could of said something to Raymond but he just acted like everything was okay. Another thing is Merusaults whole relationship with Marie. Meursault will not for his life tell Marie that he loves her, I still dint understand why he wont do that but apparently I guess he doesn't believe in love or maybe he just doesn't know really what it means.
Always what with Meursault and the sun? He doesn't like the sun one bit. The sun ¨makes¨ him do certain things that he would never do if the sun wasn't there? He uses the sun as a excuse for everything wrong that happens in his life. The sun is mentioned in big places throughout the novel. For example, at his mothers funeral the sun is mentioned and at the beach when he murdered the Arab the sun was a part of that as well.
"Its like he does the opposite of what or how your suppose[d] to act in life."
ReplyDeleteMeursault would certainly argue that there ISN'T any was you're supposed to act, and that he simply does what he wants to. In Camus' foreword in the American edition, he says that what Meursault from society is his inability to lie.
I think the thing with the sun directing his actions kinda makes sense given his character. He's driven by extremely basic instincts--food, sex, sleep, etc., so I think it would make sense that he would be driven to kill a man because he was irritated by the sun. Clearly, human ideas of right and wrong seem to be of no concern to him.
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