Oedipus Journal 3

To what extent would you agree that plot should be valued more highly than style in the work. In you answer you should refer to two or three works you have studied?
Comparing the play "Oedipus the King" and the book, The Stanger, I think plot is just as important, if not more important than the style in the work. First of all, in the play, Sophocles creates a bold plot that he bounces off the times and does not entirely write in chronological order. This creates things, such as dramatic irony, that an author's style does not create. Also, plot is a huge factor in a story. If you have no plot, then the story is not understandable. If you do not have well constructed techniques, you can still have a story.
In the Stranger, Camus used techiniques, such as short sentences. This created Mersault's character and how he thought. He was very plain, just like the sentences he used. The plot was more important then Camus' techniques, in my opinion. Camus did not use a huge amount of techniques, like in Their Eyes Were Watching God. The big part of the story was the plot. Everything was referred back to the plot and it pretty much mapped put Mersault's life. This mapping helped create Mersault. The climax in the plot, Mersault shooting the arab, is more meaningful then just little techniques Camus generated within the book. Likewise goes with "Oedipus the King".