Reflective Analysis Of Meursault
Reflective Statement
How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? (300-400 words)
Through the interactive oral, I got to understand more deeply about the cultural and contextual considerations of the work. Before, my understanding of the work before was very basic: the Arab-French relationship, the First World War going on and the influence of the author’s life on the work. Meursault killed the Arab because of the sun, because he felt like it. Therefore, had it been any other person, be it French or Arab, he would have still done it at that particular time and moment. It was because of this inferiority of the Arabs that, at Meursault’s trial, he was not condemned …show more content…
Work for Meursault didn’t bear much meaning. When offered an opportunity to live and travel around Paris a year, Meursault wasn’t very interested. He replied: “you could never change your life, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn’t at all dissatisfied with mine here.” Meursault is focused on living in the present, he does not seem to care about advancement in his career, ambitions nor try to anticipate the future. As long as he is “satisfied” with his present, he is perfectly content. Meursault’s attitude toward love is of a similar nature. He seemed to be more focused on his physical desires for Marie rather than emotional ones and acted according to what could be seen as “normal” for a couple to do. When Marie asked him if he had loved her, Meursault replied that it “didn’t mean anything”. Similarly, when Marie proposed to Meursault, he did not think that it was a serious matter and had it been another girl who had asked him, he would have accepted all the same. At his revelation in the end, Meursault had shouted that “What did it matter that Marie now had a new Meursault to kiss?” To Meursault, any existence is the same, as good as another. There is no need to care about the future as everything, precious or not, will one day cease to
How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? (300-400 words)
Through the interactive oral, I got to understand more deeply about the cultural and contextual considerations of the work. Before, my understanding of the work before was very basic: the Arab-French relationship, the First World War going on and the influence of the author’s life on the work. Meursault killed the Arab because of the sun, because he felt like it. Therefore, had it been any other person, be it French or Arab, he would have still done it at that particular time and moment. It was because of this inferiority of the Arabs that, at Meursault’s trial, he was not condemned …show more content…
Work for Meursault didn’t bear much meaning. When offered an opportunity to live and travel around Paris a year, Meursault wasn’t very interested. He replied: “you could never change your life, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn’t at all dissatisfied with mine here.” Meursault is focused on living in the present, he does not seem to care about advancement in his career, ambitions nor try to anticipate the future. As long as he is “satisfied” with his present, he is perfectly content. Meursault’s attitude toward love is of a similar nature. He seemed to be more focused on his physical desires for Marie rather than emotional ones and acted according to what could be seen as “normal” for a couple to do. When Marie asked him if he had loved her, Meursault replied that it “didn’t mean anything”. Similarly, when Marie proposed to Meursault, he did not think that it was a serious matter and had it been another girl who had asked him, he would have accepted all the same. At his revelation in the end, Meursault had shouted that “What did it matter that Marie now had a new Meursault to kiss?” To Meursault, any existence is the same, as good as another. There is no need to care about the future as everything, precious or not, will one day cease to