The Renegade In Camus 'Exile And The Kingdom': Book Analysis

The renegade, or a confused man is one of the most confused text in the whole collection of stories in Camus’s Exile and the Kingdom. The narrator renegade, through his irrational tongue and confused timeline, narrates a story of his unceasing conversion of religion. The renegade is first born in a poor and violent family. As he is eager to changing his state, Catholicism provides him power and convert him. The renege goes to Tahaza, despite other’s admonishment, in a wish to subjugate the people in there and convert them. However, after experiencing excruciating torture and subjugated by the power, the renegade convert to the house of the fetish and becomes more determined to follow them than he was as a Catholic. Yet, the belief system destruct when he sees the Catholics bring more power with them. The renegade feverishly tries to convert back to Catholics again, but a salt …show more content…
Catholicism brings him an order of love and gentleness, and moreover, “He[the priest] would talk to me about a future.”(28). Catholicism shows him a unified form of life and gives him a future he can expected. He was converted and believed in this new form of life. “I sought out Penances, I minimized the ordinary, in short I wanted to be an example, me too, so they would notice me, and in noticing me they would pay homage to what had made me better, praise my lord through me”(19) Catholicism gives him an aim to achieve - to bring unity not only to his life, but also to others’