The Guest By Albert Camus Essay

“The Guest” explains the different ideals among different people, how a man’s morals could forgive or execute another man and his actions. Albert Camus depicts intriguing characteristics through his work of Daru and the Arab uncommon encounter. “The Guest” is a short story that expresses Camus’s attempt to convey the true isolation any human can feel at heart through a sense of absurdity and distress of his characters morals and how someone may truly be guilty of murder or of their own conscience. The depiction of isolation and solitude in the beginning of “The Guest” is arranged in such a way that expulsion is felt at the end of the story through grief. Daru now realizes that he made the mistake of being indecisive, and in doing so he feels grief for not helping the Arab who in his eyes has done nothing wrong. Daru never saw the slaughtering of which the Arab has been accused of and could not come to imagine the Arab angry enough to perform such a violent crime of murder, therefor Daru could not simply hand over a man to the police without physical evidence of such wrongdoing. Daru fails to receive an explanation of the
Before the story begins to unfold Camus says, “But Daru had been born here everywhere else, he felt exiled” (). No one ever truly feels at home, unless without caring about security, an individual will seek comfort normally in what is known to them. Daru has willed himself to believe he is comfortable at his isolated school house when in reality he wished to be closer to the little town at the base of the foothills. The Human mind tricks itself into finding comfort in what it recognizes, without recognition everyone and thing would be foreign and