Crime and Punishment vs the Stranger

The novels The Stranger by Albert Camus and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky are both murder novels that explores the inner thoughts of the killers. Camus and Dostoevsky wrote novels that portrays a young man committing murder and how the young man faces the consequences and deals with the horrible crime the which he has committed. Albert Camus and Fyodor Dostoevsky uses two different points of view in each of their novels, first person point of view and third person point of view, respectively. Using the two perspectives, the reader is given two different yet effective ways to evaluate and interpret the characters.
The main character of The Stranger by Albert Camus is given the name Meursault. Meursault is easily characterized as an apathetic human being who feels for no one, but himself. He is guilty of killing the Arab brother of his “friend” Raymond's mistress. Meursault is found guilty and is sentenced to death by beheading, via guillotine. The charge that was given to Meursault was premeditated murder. This, however was not true. Meursault shot the Arab with out planning it. From the context of the book he may have done the deed by accident. That, however, is countered by the fact that the Arab was shot four more times after the first shot fired. There was also a significant amount of time that occurred before the last two shots were fired. The extreme apathy of Meursault was found and established early in the novel. The first line of the novel states; “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.” (Camus 3). Meursault was uncertain of his mother's time of death, which reflects a lot about his character. A woman who should be extremely dear to him is treated as if she was just another person on the street. Another woman important to Meursault, or at least should be, is Marie. Marie and Meursault were intimate. The most of their greatest time together by water and at the beach. Marie loved Meursault. When she asked him if he loved her his