Ever been stuck in a situation where you feel so out of place, or maybe in a situation where you feel that you don't belong? I'd like to think that everyone has different ways of viewing the world. In the book The Stranger by Camus, the sun symbolizes Meursault's realization of life in order to convey the target that his life is meaningless, hopeless, and that he is existing without living. .
The sun is a representation of a meaningful life that symbolizes Meursault's requirement to get away from false situations that can lead to hope which is a way of building up his relationship with life. In the story, the character gives the readers imagery of how the sunlight caught his attention, "All around me there was still the same glowing countryside flooded with sunlight. The glare from the sky was unbearable" (16). This quote caught my attention because it was a reminder of how he was still living. He caught the fact that there was light in the room, but he also digs deeper to it of how he's not really enjoying the amount of light that is set up for him. It's foreshadowing of how he's going to end up in a dark hole, or as we like to call it, jail. He doesn't seem to mind being in a dark hole at the moment. This also symbolizes how he isn't very appreciative of how much the sun is meaningful to the world. The sun represents a meaningful life. Another quote that caught my attention towards life being meaningful is "All of it--the sun, the smell of leather and horse dung from the hearse, the smell of varnish and incense, and my fatigue after a night without sleep--was making hard for me to see or think straight" (17). This is a representation of how distracted he is, focusing on meaningless situations and unimportant stuff. This quotes tells the readers that Meursault is hiding from the truth. His mind is set up to think that life is so meaningless that he puts excuses around things that are irrelevant to the problem.
First published in 1946, The Stranger was Camus' first novel. ... The sun almost becomes a character in itself. ... During good times, Meursault comments on the warmth of the sun. ... I feel this symbolizes hope for our main character. ... He chooses not to "sell out- to the rules of society and because of this, his truth makes him "the stranger, - as suggested in the title. ...
The narrator states "We slowly drove- (5), "We passed the school- (9), "We passed the Fields- (11), "We passed the Setting Sun- (12) and "We paused before a House- (17). This repetition also shows the progress of their journey past a community and school, past farmers' fields, past the setting sun which symbolizes the end of her life, to a house or grave which is her final resting place. ... The personification in Emily Dickinson's poem, "Because I could not stop for Death- is so vivid the reader is able to form a mental picture of horses pulling a ghost like being in the carriage ...
However, Romeo and Juliet's love is symbolizes a verb. ... It is like the east, with Juliet the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious mo... ... Probably a lot of those marriages were empty emotionally, where a husband and wife were really just two strangers. ...
Macbeth concludes that killing King Duncan and bearing the guilt is to be easy pass on to strangers, "On my head they placed a sterile crown and put a barren scepter in my hand-to be wrenched from me by a stranger, instead of handed to a son of mine. ... As the play begins to further develop, he learns of his wife's death, realizing that his ambition has lead to his downfall: "The sun wearies me. ... For as we recall, it was a bell, which Lady Macbeth had rung to summon the death of King Duncan, and now it was the very same bell symbolizing the death of Macbeth or in other words, down...
Images are put on the eggs to symbolize many different things that relate to anything form Christianity to farming to the paganism. ... The sun was the most honoured of these symbols, because it signifies the sun god, also the sun caused their fields to grow and could be seen as producing life. ... The Sun came to represent the Son, Jesus Christ. ... Upon placing the paska into the oven say: "Holy paska, be as grand and beautiful as the sun, because we are baking you for the sun. ... Don't let any of your neighbours or worse - strangers - come into the house when you are preparing the pas...
Catherine loves Healthcliff, but Hindley hates the stranger for stealing his fathers affection away. ... ily Bronte describes Wuthering Heights having "narrow windows deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones."8 This description using the characteristics of Wuthering Heights is adjacent to Heathcliff when he is illustrated having, "black eyes withdrawn so suspiciously under their brow."9 Heathcliff lived in a primal identification with nature, from the rocks, stones, trees, the heavy skies and eclipsed sun, which environs him. ... If all else perished, and he r...
The symbol of the eagle with the goose in his claws symbolizes what Odysseus is going to do to all of the suitors. ... As Odysseus was standing in his house, in the shape of a stranger, he realizes that the people who are very close to him did not recognize who he was, but his dog Argos, does recognize his master. ... Here is where Argos symbolizes Odysseus. The stranger, Odysseus was old, just like the dog. ... When Odysseus and his crew land on the island of the Sun god, his crew was tempted to slaughter one of the sun gods" cows. ...
Little does he know that the bright eye catching moonshine that he, is staring at is only a reflection from the sun. Without the sun's rays, the moon would not be able to light up the night sky, nor fool the entire world of its beauty. ... If one were to go up to a group of strangers and ask where the light of the night was coming from, a majority of their answers would be the moon itself. Author Henry David Thoreau would then shake his head at the group of strangers and argue that they are seeing only the obvious and not the reality. ... Humans have limitation in terms of their senses; t...
So it is probably December when the sun sets earliest, the day is the shortest, the nights are the longest, with the most hours of darkness. ... Part of traveler seems to want to stay exactly where he is, and the other wants to leave the human-made road and enter the deep and lovely darkness that is also white from falling snow, possibly symbolizing moonlight. ... In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," we learn that Robert Frost is no stranger to troubles, but he will continue live with whatever problems he faces. ...
