Journal #2

Option 1
The sun and light in a sense symbolizes the his ID. The sun was the force that caused him to kill the Arab. The sun and brightness is what causes Meursault to do bad things. The sun causes Meursault to do things that go against society's views of what is good and what is bad. The sun is constant through out the story and is present when Meursault is faced with decisions that society views and acceptable or not acceptable. Meursault is constantly struggling with this through out the story as the sun is a constant present. This symbolism can develop a theme of struggles that are created from society's views on what is acceptable and what is not acceptable for others in the society making them become strangers to the society. Camus also tries to express the theme that people need to conform to society's views in order to be accepted and without that acceptance their life will be difficult.