Good And Evil In The Stranger By Albert Camus

Are people evil or are their behaviors evil? That question is up to your personal beliefs but i will be sharing with you what i think about the question if people are evil or their behaviors evil. I believe that people are evil and not their behaviors. In this essay I will further explain why I believe this with further detail and examples from the great book, “ The Stranger” by Albert Camus.
“I drank the coffee. then I felt like having a smoke . But I hesitated, because I didn’t know if I could do it with Mamman right there. I thought about it, it didn’t matter. I offered the caretaker a cigarette and we smoked. “pg 8. This is a quote from the very odd and confusing character Meursault. This quote from Meursault tells how Meursault himself was being disrespectful. He made the decision to eat, smoke, and drink coffee over his mom’s coffin. It’s not just his behavior it’s his way of life.
pg 59. This quote if from once again Meursault himself. After the evil Meursault shot and killed the Arab man after one shot, Meursault decided to shoot not 1, not 2, but three more times at the dead body. What was the point in doing that you might ask. there is not much to say other than Meursault was an evil man with evil intentions. The Arab didn’t deserve to be shot in the first place anyway let alone 4 times to his death. With what I have read in this book so far is that Meursault is crazy and making those decisions to be evil by himself. It is obvious that Meursault is evil because he didn’t want raymond to kill the Arab but rather he wanted himself to kill the poor helpless little arab and die that