Comparing the Characters of The Stranger (The Outsider) and The Trial :: comparison compare contrast essays

Characters ofCamus The Stranger (The foreigner) andKafkas The Trial The characters of the chaplain, in Albert Camus The alien, and the priest, in Franz Kafkas The Trial, be quite similar, and ar pivotal to the development of the fabrication. These characters serve essentially to bring the question of graven image and religion to probe the existentialist aspects of it, in novels completely devoid of spectral context. The main idea visible about these two characters is that they are two the last ones seen by the protagonists, Mearsault and K., both non-believers in the word of the lord. Whereas the chaplain in The Outsider tries to make Mearsault believe in the existence of god, the priest tries to warn and pardon to K. what will happen to him. The reason the chaplain is the last one to see Mearsault is becasue its his job to let the prisioners have a final shot at redemption before they are executed. The reason that K. meets with the priest is out of advice give to him by someone, and he is the last character that he shows K. interacting with (although it might be true that K. meets and interacts with other people after the meeting, but they are incomplete mentioned nor visible later on). The priest doesnt try and make K. proclaim or anything of the sort, he is mainly there to converse with the character, his religious office is almost put to no use. The existentialist view of religion is that macrocosm have been alienated from god, from each other, and so forth. In the novel offensive activity and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the christian idea of salvation through suffering is ubiquitous throughout the novel. What is visible with The Trial and The Outsider is that they dont equal on the aspect of religion much throughout the story (The Outsider has bits and pieces of it appearing in his cross examinations but they are used more than to mock than in an analitical sense). The presence of these two characters at the end of the novel serves to cover all the existentialist areas known to existemtialists (although it is doubtful whether the authors consciously seek to make the characters present because of any existentialist rules they had to follow). The characters are required to structure the novels, beside the obvious existentialist areas.