Tragic Heroes in literature: Hadji Murad and The Stranger

Introduction

This essay looks into the characteristics and roles of two of the most popular, tragic heroes of English literature: “Hadji Murad” as described in the novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, and Meursault from “The Stranger” by Albert Camus.

Hadji Murad is a novel of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in Russian entitled “Khadja Murat”. The novel revolved around the period between 1896 and 1904, and was published in 1910, after Tolstoy's death, being the last of his esteemed works. The story revolves around the rebel commander Afary is forced to ally with his enemies the Russians for personal revenge. And this character is a real historical person who was identified by Tolstoy during his military service in the Caucasus. Tolstoy looks into the story with the principles of the struggle to maintain loyalty, and the idea of the inevitable conflict between East and West of resistance Chechen Muslims Ross Europeans. Tolstoy novel adopts the style of realism based on real events, but the end is different from what usually used to happen.

Completed in May 1940 and published simultaneously with “The Myth of Sisyphus” in 1942, “The Stranger” is, in part, the translation of novel ideas in the essay on the absurd. Meursault, the narrator, is a modest office worker in Algiers. It traces his life poor, limited to mechanical unfolding of everyday actions and instinctive quest of elementary sensations. He lives in a kind of torpor, a strange indifference: when to act, he notes that one can usually choose doing one act or the other, and that "he does not mind." It represents man before awareness of the absurd, but already prepared for this lucid awakening: no illusions about the values ??enshrined, it behaves as if life had no meaning. The effect on the reader by such a narrative, objective and depressing, this is sickening, according to Camus, is a good thing because it leads to a sense of the absurd (Camus, pp. 56-116).

Thesis for the Essay

The tragic heroes of Literature, as is represented by the two characters taken for analysis this time, shows how historic characters despise death and fight for their objectives using their analytical skills, thinking abilities and traits of bravery and courage.

Discussion and Analysis of the Characters

The novel “Hadji Murad” plunges the reader into a religious war in the Caucasus in the mid-nineteenth century. Sixty-five years separated the facts narrated in writing the novel because, far more than the evocation of a bygone era, this is the news - in 1904, but today also - of fundamentalism religious concern Tolstoy. It seems to take more advantage for the Chechens, but rather seeks to stigmatize the absurdity of war, especially in the service of religion, and the horrible massacres. Beyond the tragic fate of Hadji Murad, Tolstoy, through fiction, develops his thesis pacifist showing the uselessness and futility of these bloody wars while also posing a clear question of the legitimacy of nationalist demands. What makes Hadji ...