Monday, March 14, 2011

The Stranger Journal #9 Final Thesis

Camus uses the little robot woman as a foil to Mersault to emphasize his ability to act on a whim by ignoring society's rules, while she is a controlled product of those rules.  Through this, Camus emphasizes that one cannot have freedom of actions until society's rules are removed.

1 comment:

  1. But should all rules really be removed? Isn't that also how he got in trouble. I think your sarcasm toward Marie is appropriate but could it take you in a different direction. Is she really a robotic because she follows rules or is there something else Camus is doing that makes her so shallow.

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