“Camus wrote The Stranger as an enticement to his readers, to think about their own mortality and the meaning of their existence.”(n pag)
After appreciating this extraordinary novel, we could finally have certain events which clarified us about its author’s purpose.
At first, we find in trial how the participants were persistently playing a role, which would have been also played in today’s society. Remember that Meursault´s life has no rational meaning, while we as humans live with the struggle of finding a meaning in our lives, (“This struggle to find meaning where none exists is what Camus calls, the absurd.”). Meursault basically ignores the meaning of life days, while each character, such as the trial members and the chaplain, are constantly aware of discovering the meaning of everything... but the point is; do they really get to the meaning behind Meursault´s life?
As follows, you´ll perceive in the passages, how some trial individuals´ reactions can definitively be similar to ours in this present humanity.
“He stated he had no place in society whose most fundamental rules I ignored and that I couldn’t appeal to same human heart whose elementary response I knew nothing of”(P.102)
“He said the truth was that I didn’t have a soul and that nothing human, not one of the moral principles that govern men’s hearts, was within my reach”(P.101)
For us, certain rules of life are needed to be followed, either moral principles or societies´ essentials. As existentialism becomes the unique stage in this novel, we can realize why Meursault is always explaining his life existence as a simple cycle, contradicting basic issues which are really pertinent for all humans.
Meursault, just in his last existence of life, was still caring about matters which were really important for him..but for a normal person would these be as well as imperative?
“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn´t mine anymore, but one in which I´d found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, a certain evening sky, Marie´s dresses...”(P.104}
For characters and audience, there was no soul, principles and meanings in Meursault´s life, but for him, simplicity was his first choice of living. Maybe, he realized human existence had no meaning, since he saw death as another door which was an inescapable fact of life, and was what his tomorrow was going to be.
After appreciating this extraordinary novel, we could finally have certain events which clarified us about its author’s purpose.
At first, we find in trial how the participants were persistently playing a role, which would have been also played in today’s society. Remember that Meursault´s life has no rational meaning, while we as humans live with the struggle of finding a meaning in our lives, (“This struggle to find meaning where none exists is what Camus calls, the absurd.”). Meursault basically ignores the meaning of life days, while each character, such as the trial members and the chaplain, are constantly aware of discovering the meaning of everything... but the point is; do they really get to the meaning behind Meursault´s life?
As follows, you´ll perceive in the passages, how some trial individuals´ reactions can definitively be similar to ours in this present humanity.
“He stated he had no place in society whose most fundamental rules I ignored and that I couldn’t appeal to same human heart whose elementary response I knew nothing of”(P.102)
“He said the truth was that I didn’t have a soul and that nothing human, not one of the moral principles that govern men’s hearts, was within my reach”(P.101)
For us, certain rules of life are needed to be followed, either moral principles or societies´ essentials. As existentialism becomes the unique stage in this novel, we can realize why Meursault is always explaining his life existence as a simple cycle, contradicting basic issues which are really pertinent for all humans.
Meursault, just in his last existence of life, was still caring about matters which were really important for him..but for a normal person would these be as well as imperative?
“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn´t mine anymore, but one in which I´d found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, a certain evening sky, Marie´s dresses...”(P.104}
For characters and audience, there was no soul, principles and meanings in Meursault´s life, but for him, simplicity was his first choice of living. Maybe, he realized human existence had no meaning, since he saw death as another door which was an inescapable fact of life, and was what his tomorrow was going to be.
At the end, Meursault quits his reality by again accepting his upcoming;
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”(P.123)
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”(P.123)
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