When Meurault is told the law grants him the right to a free attorney, he A. is angry. B. cries hysterically. C. finds it convenient that the court should take care of such details. D. whines about the fact he can’t choose his own lawyer. 24. What does Meursault’s lawyer think of him? A. He admires him B. He seems disgusted by him C.
Summary: Chapter 1. Meursault has been arrested and thrown into jail for murdering the Arab. Meursault’s young, court-appointed lawyer visits him in his cell and informs him that investigators have checked into Meursault’s private life and learned that he “show [ed] insensitivity” on the day of Madame Meursault’s funeral.
The Defense Lawyer. Meursault 's lawyer who tries to defend Meursault's character, to present his crime as an accident, and to disassociate Meursault's behavior at his mother's funeral from the murder. He is exhausted by Meursault's unyielding impassiveness and by his self-sabotaging lack of savvy about public opinion.
The Stranger. Meursault is psychologically detached from the world around him. Events that would be very significant for most people, such as a marriage proposal or a parent’s death, do not matter to him, at least not on a sentimental level. He simply does not care that his mother is dead, or that Marie loves him.
Meursault feels that his lawyer defended him during the trial as best he could. he wants to spend his last minutes on earth alone and in quiet reflection. he doesn't believe in God, so this life is it.
What defense did Meursault's lawyer present? Meursault's lawyer offers an interpretation of the events that led up to the crime, speaking in the first person, as though he were Meursault. What was the jury's verdict? What does Meursault tell the chaplain?
Although the trial was inaccurate, and the sentence Meursault received was too harsh, the trial was still fair. Regardless of its truth, the prosecution continually built evidence around the idea …show more content…
how does meursault manage to anger both the lawyer and the magistrate? he angers both with his nonchalant attitude. they are annoyed that he does not recognize the severity of his crime. he is unable to say anything other than the absolute truth.
Meursault does not want understanding and sympathy from the lawyer, and he admits being tempted, at times, to assure the lawyer that he is only "an ordinary person." But he does not because, as he says, he is too lazy to do so.
Meursault's attorney tells him that it wouldn't last more than two or three days because a more interesting parricide (the murder of a family member) case is coming up after his trial. Trial opens with the sun glaring outside (surprise) and the air stifling inside.
At the trial, Meursault reflects on his growing understanding of his guilt. The realization sets in just after he hears the doorkeeper of the Home tell the prosecutor that Meursault smoked, slept, and drank coffee during his mother's funeral and that Meursault also declined to view his mother's body.
Camus uses the trial and persecution of Meursault to express his belief that the justice system is flawed because of his absurdist ideals that truth does not exist, and human life is precious. In order to reform the justice system, Albert Camus believes that capital punishment needs to be abolished.
At the end of The Stranger, Meursault is able to die happy because he (like Ivan Ilyich) is able to come to terms with himself as a constituent part of existence, and so live authentically.Nov 24, 2015
How does the lawyer react to Meursault during their first meeting? The clerk types an answer he assumes Meursault will give to the magistrate's question about Meursault's mother, but then has to cross it out when Meursault responds differently than expected.
When the lawyer leaves, Meursault thinks, "I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else ... but really there wasnt much point and I gave up the idea out of laziness" (66). This point also emphasizes Camus' philosophy that life is absurdity.
In a moral sense, the prosecutor argues, Meursault is just as guilty as the man who killed his own father. Calling for the death penalty, the prosecutor elaborates that Meursault's actions have paved the way for the man who killed his father, so Meursault must be considered guilty of the other man's crime as well.