Archtype

In The Stranger Meursault os viewed through archtypal lenses as some what of an innocent in the begining. He loses his mother which makes the reader feel a little sorry for him even though he shows no emotion regaurding the issue. However as the story moves on Meursault becomes a villan or destroyer. He ends up killing the Arab for no reason and from that point on loses what little human nature he has and becomes a heartless animal. Meursault feels no remorse for killing the man and he also ends up cursing human kind making him an evil villan.