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

force as a Motif in The fantastic and The Sailor Who trim From Grace With The Sea In The Stranger by Albert Camus, and The Sailor Who drop down From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima, violence is an important motif. This paper provide attempt to show how comparisons exists in these books which aids the violence motif. Violence is reason with murder or multiple murders in the above books. In The Stranger, Meursault, an sozzled hero, shoots the Arab five times on the beach. He accounts for the scenario by telling the ratifier My whole being tensed and I squeezed my hand around the revolver. The trip out gave I felt the smooth underside of the butt and there, in that noise, discriminating and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook wrap up the sweat and sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional lull of a beach where Id been happy. Then I blast four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without go fo rth a trace (Camus 59). In The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, the dupe of the first violent murder which occurs is a kitten. Noboru, a thirteen twelvemonth old boy, is assigned the task , by the Chief of the Gang (which consists of adolescent boys), to kill the kitten by throwing it against a log. Mishima presents Noborus nervousness onwards 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 heavily again. He felt it blow up by his breast like the morning sea breeze intent to kill. His tit felt like a clothes rack made of jab metal poles and hung with shirts drying in the sun (Mishima 57). The author paints the picture of the murder candidate b... ...Ryuji returns from a voyage 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 relationship in the second part. The killing 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 use the literary topic of violence and employed literary tools such as place setting, genre, characterization and the structure of the book to conclude their violent motifs in murder. Works Cited Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Trans. Matthew Ward. fresh York Vintage, 1988.Mishima, Yukio. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. Trans. John Nathan. New York Vintage, 1994.