Yeah The Stranger is such an amazing book. You really need to read the book in order to understand this song to the full effect. There is just so much you can uncover in this book....so many hidden meanings...
In that time if a French man killed an Arab he would most likely get away with it, but Meursault got put to death for killing an Arab. He pretty much got put to death for the way he lived his life...not because of the crime he committed.
It was not so much how he lived, but the fact he refused to make a show of feeling remorse. He felt nothing, and admitted it. After which he was doomed. (Though really, he was doomed from the first page.)
It was not so much how he lived, but the fact he refused to make a show of feeling remorse. He felt nothing, and admitted it. After which he was doomed. (Though really, he was doomed from the first page.)
Also, the way he behaved at his mother's funeral (he smoked cigarettes and drank coffee! Scandalous!)
Also, the way he behaved at his mother's funeral (he smoked cigarettes and drank coffee! Scandalous!)
Mersault has become desensitized to life and, in an attempt to feel something (anything), he shoots the Arab. Does life have intrinsic value? I believe this is the question posed by Camus (similar to the one Hamlet asks in his famous soliloquy). There's also something about the socio-political climate of post WWII France and the prejudice against Algerians.
Mersault has become desensitized to life and, in an attempt to feel something (anything), he shoots the Arab. Does life have intrinsic value? I believe this is the question posed by Camus (similar to the one Hamlet asks in his famous soliloquy). There's also something about the socio-political climate of post WWII France and the prejudice against Algerians.
Yes...you can see in the prosecutor's argument how it has nothing to do with the actual crime, but with how he disapproves of Mersault's attitude. Mersault is condemned not for what he did, but for what he is.
Yes...you can see in the prosecutor's argument how it has nothing to do with the actual crime, but with how he disapproves of Mersault's attitude. Mersault is condemned not for what he did, but for what he is.
Yeah The Stranger is such an amazing book. You really need to read the book in order to understand this song to the full effect. There is just so much you can uncover in this book....so many hidden meanings... In that time if a French man killed an Arab he would most likely get away with it, but Meursault got put to death for killing an Arab. He pretty much got put to death for the way he lived his life...not because of the crime he committed.
It was not so much how he lived, but the fact he refused to make a show of feeling remorse. He felt nothing, and admitted it. After which he was doomed. (Though really, he was doomed from the first page.)
It was not so much how he lived, but the fact he refused to make a show of feeling remorse. He felt nothing, and admitted it. After which he was doomed. (Though really, he was doomed from the first page.)
Also, the way he behaved at his mother's funeral (he smoked cigarettes and drank coffee! Scandalous!)
Also, the way he behaved at his mother's funeral (he smoked cigarettes and drank coffee! Scandalous!)
Mersault has become desensitized to life and, in an attempt to feel something (anything), he shoots the Arab. Does life have intrinsic value? I believe this is the question posed by Camus (similar to the one Hamlet asks in his famous soliloquy). There's also something about the socio-political climate of post WWII France and the prejudice against Algerians.
Mersault has become desensitized to life and, in an attempt to feel something (anything), he shoots the Arab. Does life have intrinsic value? I believe this is the question posed by Camus (similar to the one Hamlet asks in his famous soliloquy). There's also something about the socio-political climate of post WWII France and the prejudice against Algerians.
Yes...you can see in the prosecutor's argument how it has nothing to do with the actual crime, but with how he disapproves of Mersault's attitude. Mersault is condemned not for what he did, but for what he is.
Yes...you can see in the prosecutor's argument how it has nothing to do with the actual crime, but with how he disapproves of Mersault's attitude. Mersault is condemned not for what he did, but for what he is.