Budd And Meursault

The strangeness of Meursault is evident when the prison Chaplain attempts to take his confession. He does not believe in God and find no reason to be despair. Although he is aware of his inevitable future, he thinks “ I didn’t have time to waste thinking about things that didn’t interest me”. In this perspective, he differentiates himself from everyone else. He sees life as meaningless, torturous, boring and dull. So for him, Death is equal to heaven, a permanent freedom. He shows the difference between ‘sin’ and ‘guilt’ and explains that he is condemned only for his guilt. In this context, we can compare the two characters of Melville’s Billy Budd and Camus’s Meursault. These two narratives have the same equivocal situation. From one point