The Stranger

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   Since Meursault is representative of an existentialist existance, his name, his age, his features make no difference. It is a hollow world in which he functions drowned out by the glaring sun and his inability to feel defining emotions. He is, in fact, a modern everyman, the product of a life which has long lost meaning and any chance of salvation. Meuersault is drawn up in a chain of events where there is no meaning and nothing makes sense. Examine the title of this novel; Meursault, is indeed, The Stranger.To give him more of an identity would negate Camus' purpose in this work.

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