The Duality Of Life In The Stranger, By Albert Camus

Albert Camus’ The Stranger is about Meursault, an acutely detached, unaffected man, who kills an Arab, then is tried and convicted and sentenced to death. The novel focuses on the absurdity of life, which rises in the duality of one’s desire to find the point of existence, and their inability to do so. The absurd envelops all things, and Camus is devout in the return of an affectionate embrace, for he is convinced that only when one is entirely free of hope, can they live. As living things that will die, one can either choose to live with or without hope of God or an afterlife.
His mother was never religious, and though Camus read the Bible and studied the works of St. Augustine, to religion, he was at most respectful (Internet Encyclopedia
Those not afraid of a possible, painful abyss, or have an intense conviction that the inferno is only of fiction will live for a maximization of earthly pleasure. Like the religious, the seculars are also vulnerable to attacks on their personal reason for being around. Following the confirmation of his execution, Meursault is visited by a priest, and the priest, familiar with the quick Christian conversion of the soon-to-be-beheaded, is alarmed by Meursault’s harmonious accord with deadness. He asks Meursault to call him “father,” and in a father’s ploy to make eating peas look fun, he spoon-feeds him airplanes of spiritual consolidation. Even with the promise of a heavenly after dinner dessert, Meursault remains unimpressed. “I had little time left and didn’t want to waste it one God” (114). In the manner of the executive magistrate, Meursault
Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: "Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours." That doesn't mean anything” (3). The burial was unpleasant, but mostly because it was a hot day, and after his mother is in the ground, he returns to the village, where a nurse speaks to him, "If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church” She was right. There was no way out” (17). This alludes to not only one of the side effects of walking in the sun, but also to life’s fundamental symptom. Albert Camus was less than a year old when chunks of shrapnel expire daddy Camus’ central vascular organ. In Reflections on the Guillotine, Camus writes about his stand on the death sentence. Camus explains his father’s initial interest in watching a crazed and bloodthirsty farmworker, who had murdered a family of farmers, including the children, and was to be sentenced to death, and Camus father thought decapitation was “too mild for a such a monster.” However, he had become violently sick after seeing it happen. Camus argues that “[c]apital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated, can be compared” (151). All living things are born with their head through the plank of wood, beneath the sudden fall of a guillotine’s blade, so one must decide if they will live with or without hope of an