When the jury and court finds out that his mother recently died and he did not mourn for her like a “normal person,” they said, “They had before them the basest of crimes, a crime made worse than sordid by the fact that they were dealing with a monster, a man without morals.”. Camus made it seem like all the attention towards Meursault was partially annoying, and since he pleaded guilty and all the evidence pointed towards him, he should serve his jail time for murder like everyone else. It is a shame that the whole process of the case was contrived into such a big deal, but in fact, it was and still is a big deal to murder someone. He was annoyed and bother with the process of being convicted, that the court has gone off subject to testify him, and that the jury could not see him as a simplistic man with little needs in his life. Meursault does not feel any regret for the murder, but is more annoyed by the fact that he killed a man and it is being made such a big deal. He does not feel like his life makes a tremendous difference in the world, along with the Arab he killed. Meursault shows no emotions due to the fact that he does not have any meaning in life. “Because he is true to his belief, Meursault is judged a monster by society and is condemned to die.” This shows how much society has failed to understand how he feels. Meursault never mourned for his mother at her funeral and refused to see her body in the casket. Meursault is different from society mentally and emotionally, and society does not even see him as a living being in the ways he shows his emotionless features.
Gnanasekaran, and the novel “The Stranger” by Albert Camus. Sources that are used throughout the essay are “Camus and the Novel of the “Absurd”” by Victor Brombert, “Death and Absurdism in Camus’s The Stranger” by Alan Gullette, “The Stranger Theme Philosophical Viewpoints: The Absurd” by Shmoop Editorial Team, “Psychological Interpretation of the Novel The Stranger by Camus” by R. Meursault is a “stranger” and an absurdity to society because he does not show any emotions, he has no meaning for life, and his only certainty and guarantee is death. Meursault’s common sense is that everyone dies eventually, and their lives do not matter in the end. His existentialistic beliefs lead him to believed his life has no meaning. Society does not understand his existentialistic beliefs. But what the public fails to understand about him is his lack of emotions toward killing a man, and even though it shouldn’t be part of the case, Meursault’s failure of mourning over his dead mother’s casket. The public has come to know of him as a murderer, which, in the event, he did murder an Arab. The Stranger, by Albert Camus, is a novel about Meursault and how he is a “stranger” to society.
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