Comparing Violence as a Motif in Stranger and Sailor Who Fell From Grac

Violence as a Motif in The Stranger and The Sailor Who cut back From Grace With The sea In The Stranger by Albert Camus, and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the ocean by Yukio Mishima, violence is an important motif. This paper will attempt to plant how comparisons exists in these books which aids the violence motif. Violence is concluded with murder or multiple murders in the above books. In The Stranger, Meursault, an absurd hero, shoots the Arab five propagation on the strand. He accounts for the scenario by telling the reader My whole organism tensed and I squeezed my hand around the revolver. The trigger gave I felt the smooth underside of the butt and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where Id been happy. Then I fired four much times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a indication (Camus 59). In The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, the victim of the first hazardous murder which occurs is a kitty-cat. Noboru, a thirteen year old boy, is depute the task , by the Chief of the Gang (which consists of teenage boys), to kill the kitten by throwing it against a log. Mishima presents Noborus nervousness before the murder by describing to the reader his physical condition and states Just a minute before, he had taken a cold bath, but he was sweating severely again. He felt it blow up through his breast analogous the morning sea breeze intent to kill. His chest felt desire a clothes rack made of hollow metal poles and hung with shirts drying in the sun (Mishima 57). The author paints the picture of the murder scene b... ...Ryuji returns from a journey to settle down with Fukaso and to begin his life as a family man. The dinner Ryuji had at Fukasos place and the night he spends there in the first part of the book foreshadows their relation ship in the second part. The sidesplitting of the kitten in the first part foreshadows the Ryujis murder in the second part. Comparison is made between The Stranger and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea to show how the authors of the books have used the literary idea of violence and employed literary tools such as place setting, genre, exposure and the structure of the book to conclude their violent motifs in murder. Works Cited Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Trans. Matthew Ward. sassy York Vintage, 1988.Mishima, Yukio. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. Trans. John Nathan. New York Vintage, 1994.