Camus Good Vs Evil

Are people evil or is there behavior evil. I say people are evil in general. FDR once said “all we have to fear is fear itself.” to me this is a lie I would've said all we have to fear is the evil people that create fear. Meursault in the book The Stranger by Albert Camus is a evil man by producing fear in multiple cases.

With Meursault spending the day with his girlfriend they had this conversation.”She asked me if I loved her. I told her it really didn’t mean anything but that i didn’t think so…… She laugh in such away that I kissed her.” Page 35. This shows that Meursault plays mind games making people unsure of how he feels. With this he uses his powers to get away with kissing and making love to Marie.

Meursault spreads more fear when he talked to old Salamano. Salamano had lost his dog and was trying to find comfort in talking to Meursault. “They’re not going to take him away from me are they monsieur Meursault? They’ll give him back to
The Arab didn’t move . Besides, he was still pretty far away. Maybe it’s the shadow on his face, but it looked like he was laughing.” Page 58. His laugh was to cover the fear, to show none to Meursault which made Meursault do this “ My whole being tensed and I squeezed my hand around the revolver. The trigger gave ……. Then I fired four more at a motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving leaving a trace.” Page 59. Meursault didn’t get to see the fear in his victims because he didn’t show it. That inraged Meursault to where he shot the Arab not just once but to make an example he shot him a total of five time after the first shot killed him. With all of this I can prove that Meursault is a evil man that constructs fear. “All we have to fear is fear itself” -FDR but to me we also have to fear the men that create fear and use it as a tool. Meursault deserved the death in the public