Part one of term paper
Never the less I answered that I had pretty much lost the habit of analyzing myself and that it would be hard for me to tell him what he wanted to know. I probably did love Maman, but that didn’t mean anything. At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead. Here the lawyer interrupted me and he seemed v ...

Part two of term paper
... of truth forces his client to swear to essentially not tell the truth and to not express how he feels about the world and how he feels about the socially required love of one’s mother. These actions of the lawyer are symbolic of the restraining actions of the society, the religion, and the super ego from which Meursault has freed himself. Meursault has taken on an image of a bare and innocent society shackled by the honesty it inspires, or, better stated, Meursault is the only honest man in a so ...