Examples Of Injustice In The Stranger, By Albert Camus

In the novella, The Stranger, Albert Camus gives a wonderful example of how sometimes it is thought that injustice is the way to justice. Camus developed a character named Meursault whose absence of reality helped to deepen one of the themes within the novella. Meursault was a unique character in that he had no sense of direct reality and internal feeling about the things occurring around him. Meursault had never felt “justice” before. Even his own mother’s death failed to warrant any feelings from him. He was heartless in a sense. The murder of the Arab by Meursault was a passageway to justice yet to come. In this scene, Meursault was guided by his surroundings, such as the splintering heat, but still felt nothing compassion-wise at