Albert Camus Meaning

The Stranger by Albert Camus is a book that teaches a philosophical point of view on the meaning of life. The story is about a man referred to as Monsieur Meursault, who believes life is meaningless. Meursault is informed of his mother who had passed away and went to attend her funeral. He gives us details of why he feels life is meaningless by showing no emotion or remorse about the passing of his mother. He isn’t seen sobbing or bawling his eyes out for his mother and even refuses to see his mother one last time before she is scheduled to be buried. The day after the funeral, Meursault goes to the beach to swim and finds one of his ex-coworkers, Marie, swimming and being splashed by waves. Meursault feels a sexual sensation towards Marie …show more content…
Meursault goes to prison and attends a court trial as he is seen as guilty and what makes it worse is the person he is, who sees life as meaningless, increases his chance of being guilty by not knowing why he shot the dead body four more times. He also tells the Magistrate, his lawyer and the chaplain who visits him in prison that he does not believe in God. This makes it hard for him since the court honors God by using a bible as their system to swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. He is found guilty and receives a heavy punishment as execution. Meursault doesn’t change one bit throughout the story and his beliefs stay the same as finding life meaningless. His beliefs are made clear at the end when the chaplain is forcing his religion on Meursault to change his mind and telling him ‘God is giving him a chance to turn this all around and for him to live; that no human is so guilty that he cannot be found forgiven.’ Meursault takes his beliefs to the grave, also wishing “For everything to consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate” (Camus