In the book you can see life during death many times. For instance, while Meursault is visiting his Mother’s dead body the room is “It was a bright, spotlessly clean room, with whitewashed walls and a big skylight”(5). In Camus’ The Stranger, Kathryn B. McGuire says: “Studies reveal that light is equated with consciousness, truth, in-sight, and enlightenment”. “Light also suggests the human qualities of man, while darkness suggests …show more content…
"You take on the fellow on the right, and give me your revolver. If the other one starts making trouble or gets out his knife, I’ll shoot." (37). According to Dr. Michael Delahoyde’s Camus’ The Stranger: “He 's so mentally detached that the thought of murder poses no great emotion or even feared remorse”. This tells how Meursault has no real feeling or has no real meaning to life. The murder does not affect him in any way. He continues his everyday life as usual. When he kills someone else he starts to live on his own and leave his dull life before. He realizes that there is no true meaning to life and that he must just go with the flow. When Meursault kills the Arab it is not until later that he realizes what he has done is kind of …show more content…
Meursault has the same attitude towards every situation in life. He just does not care what is going on in the world. He would just rather simply be dead so he does not have to put up with this life anymore.
Death is the moment of life for everyone. Whether it is their own or someone they are close to they are going to experience death. This death experience is overall going to bring them close to the meaning of life. Everyone has a different meaning to their life or what they understand to be their meaning of life. Meursault does not have a meaning of life in The Stranger he does not think that people have meanings he just believes that everyone is pointless.
Depending on what people believe is there meaning of life changes how they act. Since Meursault does not believe that their is a point to life he does not act with a purpose. Meursault overall just acts as a robot because he has no real emotions like a robot. He did not even cry at his own mother 's funeral. He did not have a good relationship with his mother but he still lost someone important to his life. And he does not even let one tear loose. This shows that since he believes that there is no purpose in life that he does not care what happens in his