Chaos in The Stranger and the The Story of Zahra
Chaos in The Stranger and the The Story of Zahra In every person’s life there is chaos some time in their life. ... The two protagonists in The Stranger by Albert Camus and The Story of Zahra by Hanan al-Shaykh land themselves in a chaos situation. ... The consequences of this chaos are similar, because they both embrace their fate in different ways. Firstly what is the chaos situation the protagonists have landed themselves in? In the case of the protagonist in The Stranger, Meursault, he is in a legal chaos due to the crime he has committed. He is also in a social chaos as his life has practically been turned upside down; he can no longer work or see his girlfriend Marie so often. The situation is the same for the protagonist in The Story of Zahra, Zahra; she is in a social chaos as she has come back home from a divorce and into ongoing war in her home country. The reason behind Zahra and Meursault being is the situation is the same. ... Zahra has also committed a crime, but not a judicial crime, but more a moral crime, which is just as bad in the eyes of the Middle Eastern society, divorce Meursault is portrayed as a cold blooded killer in the court room and in the prosecution lawyers presentation we can see how previous actions are counted against him, for example, “The director then looked at the tips of his shoes and said that I hadn’t wanted to see Maman, that I hadn’t cried once, and that I had left right after the funeral and not paid my last respects at the grave.