1. Why does Marie laugh so much and have so little dialogue? Is it because she is a flat character or it is to perhaps emphasize her lack of thought?
2. Why does Camus describe the scenery so vividly and the characters so little?
3. Does Camus use the "little robot woman" symobolize anything?
4. Why does Camus use the motif of heat in the courtroom?
5. Does Camus use Mersault's lawyer's line of "everything is true and nothing is true!" (91) to parallel Mersault's world view of absurdism?
Comment on Kevin's blog:
“Does Camus imply that everyone judges each other?”
I don’t think that Camus is implying that everyone judges everyone, I believe that he is trying to deindividualize the people of the court room and create essentially a mob that is against Mersault. All people at the hearing are reffered to as a crowd, or spectators, not individuals. The only individuals pointed out are those close to Mersault that understand him. Camus uses the deindividualization of the crowd to represent the society as a whole that is against Mersault’s world view.
Comment on Isabel's blog:
Camus portrays women and Arabs in an unflattering way to express through the book the time periods sexist and racist views.
Comment on Nikki's blog:
Camus is expressing his existential belifs about the pointlessness of life through Mersault's carelessness for his mother.
Comment on Jarrad's blog:
Camus expresses a racist tendency when refering to the Arabs as a group, rather than as individuals.
Comment on Isabella's blog:
Camus uses the newspaper article about the Czechoslovakian to furhter reiterate Mersault's exestential/absurd view that decisions in life are pointless as the outcome is death, regardless.
4.) Camus uses the motif of heat throughout the story to note a change of events. Whether it be as simple as Mersault not wanting to swim anymore, to as complex as Mersault shooting the man, the heat always plays a factor in the cause which leads to the effect. In the courtroom Mersault becomes irritated not only because of the constant questioning, but because of the heat, which leads him to answering abruptly rather than thought-out (to some extent).
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