... the Arab man. However Meursault must be placed into situations which are completely alien and hostile to him and to the readers. (How many of us have ever killed a man?) Chapter six and the subsequent second part of the novel show Meursault as a man who is completely incompatible with what society expects as a contributing citizen. Nature even seems to attack him ... . Meursault is surprised that his reflection is ˜sad and severe,' it is a moment of reflection, an epiphany moment which raises the intensity of the dialogue at the end of chapter 2 onto which he realises that there is no h...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... convey an atmosphere devoid of emotion or feeling. This is especially effective between pages 21 and 24, at the end of chapter two, when Meursault is giving a descriptive narrative of the life outside his window on a typical Sunday. He ends the chapter saying " one more Sunday was over nothing had changed ." Existentialism is present in nearly all of Meursault's interactions with society ... ...

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... lacks any emotion or passion towards anything in his life. Meursault lives life through the sensations of the here and now, describing these in much detail: the sun, sea, and sky; the feel of a crisp towel; the taste of good food, good wine and cigarettes; the feel of cool water on his skin; and making love to pretty girls like Marie ... ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... on what had happened to his mother and what was actually going on, but he was bothered by something else. " I felt a little lost between the blue and white of the sky and the monotony of the colors around me-the sticky black of the tar, the dull black of all the clothes, and the shiny black of the hearse, the smell ... ...

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... , it now emphasizes his vulnerability by rejecting his search for meaning through its indifference. "At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote that a lost paradise The world evades us because ... ...

• Word Count: 2286
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate