Albert Camus The Stranger

THE STRANGER

"What is it, indeed, the absurd man? The one who, without denying it, does not make anything for the eternal. It is not that the nostalgia is strange to him, but rather he prefers his anger and his reasoning. The first one teaches him to live without appeal and to be satisfied with what he has; the second teaches his limits. Sure of his freedom to term, of his rebellion without future and of his perishable conscience, his adventure continues in the time of its life. The field is in him, his action that subtracts in all opinion except his. A bigger life cannot mean for him another life. That would be dishonest". The novel The Stranger, based on Sisyphus's Myth, shows clearly Camus existentialist point of view of life
He is so detached from that world, that not even his mother's death creates a sentiment on him. When he returned home after the burial, it occurred to him that anyway one more Sunday was over that his mother was buried then, that he was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed. And it is this detachment from everything about him what leads him to death; he had to died because he was against everything what was consider moral and normal in his
This leads to think in what the moral and the justice is if there is really one. In "The absurd man", Camus says that you cannot instruct on the moral. "I have seen people act badly with a lot of moral and I check every day that the honesty doesn't need rules". I could observe this in the role of the prosecutor. In my opinion, he is the one in search of something, maybe a "value" from his pint of view. The prosecuting attorney is a man with a fiery tongue and powerful presence. He attacks Meursault's character by persistently bringing up his indifference to his mother's death and his relationship with Marie so soon after her funeral. The prosecutor ultimately wins, for Meursault is convicted of premeditated murder and is sentenced to a public execution. This is the oral that Camus