![]() She even kisses him in public to make him realize that somebody loves him and enjoys it when he is engaged in sexual acts with her. She is engaged in satiating his physical pangs of hunger to make him realize that he has some connection with the people around him. Marie is another major character in the novel, and her significance is on account of her relationship with Meursault. Here the reader enters his mind when Meursault narrates his sense of indifference to his own condition and ridiculousness of the ethical framework of the society that has made a monster out of a man for his indifference to the world. However, during the second part, he is arrested and tried for the assassination of an Arab who had attacked him for being friends with Raymond. His indifference toward the death of his mother and absence of his near and dear ones show his plight of passing though this meaninglessness.ĭespite his beliefs, Meursault creates a façade of meaningfulness by engaging with his friends and neighbors and participating in physical games of pleasure. Like his creator, Meursault does not believe in the existence of God and realizes that a person has to make an effort to make his life meaningful or rot in the condition of meaninglessness. Camus uses him to show the meaninglessness of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is also the mouthpiece of Camus’s philosophy on the absurdity of life and existentialism. The protagonist and narrator of The Stranger, Meursault, is a major character who links all other characters together. ![]()
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