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... In “The Stranger”, Albert Camus uses irony with the absurdity of Mersault to portray the illnesses of society.
Camus meticulously formulates themes of irony to collaborate with Mersault’s absurdity in order to reveal the weaknesses of society. Irony found in diction, ambivalent sentences, and the narrator’s stance are components in producing such a revelation. ... The novel catalogues the people, setting, and events which surround Mersault. Ironically the reader, a representative and participant of society, fails to understand much beyond the systematic cataloguing of Mersault’s life as compared to the amount of presented detail. Ambivalent sentences with references towards society further add to the degree of irony in Mersault trying to comprehend society. ... Irony in narrator’s stance lays in the fact that the first person stance of the novel is a rational log of the tangible rather than a descriptive journal of his ardent emotions. Although the story is given in the first person, the readers know less about the paradoxical Mersault than they do about other characters given in the third person view. ... Society, symbolically represented via means of the trial scene, shows its weaknesses by condemning Mersault for his lack of participation in the sacred and societal expectations of life. Society’s shallow preference of emotions and passion over reasoning and logic is revealed when Mersault is condemned for expressing the truth that he feels no grievance towards his mother’s death.
Approximate Word count = 1090
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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