"Rooted in the fabric of social life, the novel cannot avoid making some criticism, even if only obliquely." The Stranger and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich present the criticism of society by using a writing style called existentialism. The Stranger and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich show existentialism in different ways using imagery, conflict, and mood. Existentialism is a 20th century philosophical movement, based on personal responsibility for acts, …showed first 75 words of 1475 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1475 total…hopes to be able to have freedom of choices in all different types of ways, but it is a unrealistic theory to be able to be anarchist and have no government with no justice as is the case were Meursault says that his sentence was because of not crying at his mother's funeral. These two books have common themes and criticize traditional society's ways and rituals using existentialism, which promotes the importance of individual self-choice.