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SIRS: Camus's "The Stranger" - 2 views

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stranger albert camus

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  • the hero of L'Etranger is basically a brainless idiot
  • the hero of L'Etranger is basically a brainless idiot
    • tiyram
      tiyram on 19 Feb 15
       
      Mersault is indeed amoral, but he has a brain and it appears to be working. He is not brain dead, he simply lacks the ethical knowledge of a common human being (maybe he has the knowledge and chooses to disregard it). 
    • tiyram
      tiyram on 19 Feb 15
       
      Mersault is indeed amoral, but he has a brain and it appears to be working. He is not brain dead, he simply lacks the ethical knowledge of a common human being (maybe he has the knowledge and chooses to disregard it). 
  • However, a close reading of these first lines makes clear that Meursault is not expressing indifference to his mother's death; he is exasperatedly alluding to the vagueness of the telegram (whose wording itself is callous)
    • tiyram
      tiyram on 19 Feb 15
       
      Contrary to the majority of the class' beliefs, Mersault is not expressing any indifference to his mother in the first page. It was simply assumed that because he wasn't aware of the exact time of his mother's death, he didn't care.  
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  • tabula rasa
  • Ostensibly
  • Alice Strange has recently expounded this view of Meursault, arguing that he "permits others to define his reactions and to create a social identity for him."
    • tiyram
      tiyram on 19 Feb 15
       
      This is definitely true. In the novel, Raymond asks Mersualt to help him beat his woman who he thinks is cheating on him. Mersault has no problem helping him by writing the letter. Mersault had no personal emotions/afflictions about this action.
  • Meursault an irrational, unintelligent child, a "juvenile delinquent" (531) who kills a man because he wants attention from society
    • tiyram
      tiyram on 19 Feb 15
       
      Contrary to Strange's opinion of someone who is easily impressionable, Girard believes that Mersault acts out in order to gain attention from society. 
  • egotistical martyrdom
  • "ultra-romantic conception of the self'
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