Essay On Camus The Stranger: An Absurd Hero

Meursault; An Absurd Hero In Camus’ The Stranger Albert Camus portrayed his beliefs and values through Meursault in The Stranger and gave him the perception that life on earth is nothing more than absurd unless one finds meaning or something to live for.
In the beginning when Meursault gets the telegram informing him that his mother has passed away, we don’t really see much of a surprised reaction from Meursault, but he makes the effort of taking off from work in order to attend her funeral. While there, Meursault is conversing with the director of the home she lived in, and he tells Meursault about how great his mother was. When Meursault was asked whether he wanted to see his mother’s body and he declined every time only wanting to focus …show more content…
Raymond is then told to go to the police station and testify. This shows the lack of rational order in the society. Camus might have used this as an allegory; Since Meursault is stuck between making Marie his mistress or have a serious relationship and make her his partner, this kind of gives an insight to point Meursault the other way, and it helps him because he gets to see how things would unravel when he makes his …show more content…
He is the type of person that lives life with no great expectations or aspirations. That is why he says it would make no difference to him if he and Marie got married earlier in the book. He does not really look at how things will be living a married life until he sees Mason and his wife; how things would turn out necessarily from his actions and or his consciousness. Attempting to add events that have some sort of purpose or meaning in Meursault’s life is what surrounds the whole book. Meursault has an eye opening moment when he realizes that he will be put to death. He states that all human life inevitably ends in death so it makes no difference to