Essay on Camus’ The Stranger (The Outsider) World...

World Without Purpose in Camus The Stranger (The Outsider) In The Stranger, Albert Camus misleadingly portrays his existentialistic views of life, death, and the world. Camus portrays the world as absurd or without purpose Meaursalt, who, as a reflection of Camus, is foreign and indifferent to his own life and death. Meaursalt eventually senses guilt for his crime, not because of the remorse of taking someone else’s life, but because it means he would lose the little things that he considers important in his life. Meaursalt is a puzzling character, who leaves readers to be uncertain about Camus’ views of life. Meaursalt is a simple and ordinary man living in French Morocco. Neither intellectual nor emotional, when†¦show more content†¦He is not immoral or moral, but amoral. There is no good or evil, because it is meaningless for Meaursalt. He has a job, a girlfriend, friends, and the things an average person has. But he is without meaning, which reflects his indifference to emotions, such as the reaction to his mothers death. His thought was that he would go back to work and that nothing would change. When his boss offers him a position in Paris, Meaursalt answers, â€Å"People can never change their lives, that in any case one life was good as another; I wasn’t dissatisfied with mine here at all†(41). When his girlfriend Marie suggests marriage, he says â€Å"yes† because marriage would not make any difference in his life. The sun is a major symbol in the novel. Meaursalt despises the heat of the bright red sun. The sun is Meaursalt’s nemesis, because it symbolizes destruction and violence. He describes heat as â€Å"inhuman and oppressive† (15). During the murder trial, the prosecutor questions why he shot the victim four additional times. It wasn’t because of a grudge against the Arab, but because the knife the Arab held reflected light. As Meaursalt would prefer, by chance he shot the victim. 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