Resumo de The Foreigner

The foreigner is the history of a human being who does not want to lie to justify. It turns out to us very difficult to do us to the idea of the personality of the protagonist because Meursault is the conscience across which we know the facts and to the remaining characters. Superficially, it might consider to be the portrait of an Algerian of European origin of the first half of the 20th century. Some of them have defined it as Camus in a version "failed". The work displays of a concise, nake, direct, natural style, with a simple language, lacking in adornments. Probably wants to pirate what would be the habitual language of an Algerian of the epoch. Only at the end of the novel there is some more lyric description, recounted concretly to the nature. The action places in Bercout and in a beach near to Algiers. The first report of the work develops in eighteen days, between a Thursday and a Sunday. The protagonist is foreign because capture arouses in the judgment of that his way of understanding the life does not fit with that of the rest of the society, but while he is never free he feels strange neither with regard to the others nor with regard to the nature. With regard to the others, he proves to be very opened, though it is extremely passive, what he can turn out to be a stranger to the readers and to the rest of prominent figures of the novel. Meursault will feel strange when the judgment separates him from his routine and, later, when it leads him to discover that he is a foreigner in the customs of his country. Finally, they accuse him of a few behaviors that are strange to the procedure of behavior to habitually. The society claims that the protagonist (the foreigner) admits that he did not want to do what he made, that repents, for of this way be able to excuse him. Raised of this form, the history of the protagonist he has as aim declare a foreigner before the others. In this respect, it might be said that Meursault is a " martyr of the truth ", someone who is not ready to change his words to be saved. During the judgment, he values very much the words of the others (he praises the language of the district attorney) and, therefore, also takes care very much of his language. This attempt of using the words of such a deep way reaffirms his foreigner's condition. Meursault, in occasions, behaves as an animal, for basic instincts; the passion of the truth dominates it. In the second part of the book, the personage is more reflexive. He assumes a kind of cosmic guilt to the effect that he actually has conscience of which he has broken of some form the universal balance inside which he was installed. It is a feeling guilt that resembles the feeling guilt of the protagonists of the Greek tragedies. With his response to justify the murder (he affirms that it has been for the Sun), Meursault demonstrates his absolute failure to adapt to the world in which he lives. It is possible to say that the protagonist shows an infantile, pre-moral personality. He is like a child that there knows what owes or it is not necessary to to do, but that it(he,she) does not know why. His friends it choose him, more than he to them. Meursault initially does not question the character of these prominent figures, and alone he attends to the pleasure, to the benefits that these relations can provide him. Only in the judgment Meursault will establish a series of moral valuations. There exist also a series of prominent figures, relatively irrelevant, and only during the judgment the reflection will arise on the behavior from someone from them. Mersault will value Marie, will realize that he judged badly the grandparents of the velatorio ? That is to say, awake in the certain personage feeling affection that had not appeared in the first part. The one who curiously does not appear in his reflections is the dead Arabic man (to the one that does not even put name). In the judgment also certain conscious sharm wakes up towards the judge, towards the dstrict attorney, towards the functioning of the system, and it(he,she) proves to be very sensitive to the visual details (the ties, the color of his eyes ?). Definitively, as his foreigner's condition is accentuated, his reflexive capacity develops also. The work is a representation of the conception existencialist of the life as an absurdity, in which the man realizes constant elections, sometimes without valuing his consequences, and in that every human being must establish his own scale of moral values. Of there that the concept of fault eliminates and that establishes a kind of ethical nonchalance for which all the actions are equivalent between them. The conscience of the death increases this feeling of absurdity, and these ideas are estimated especially in the last pages of the novel. We are before a very ambiguous personage, ambiguity looked by the proper author. The desire to judge it is a work of a society who wants to explain everything, and that wants that the man behaves in agreement to a few social preconceived procedures.

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