The Criticistity Of Absurdity In The Stranger By Albert Camus

The Stranger is a novel by French author, Albert Camus. This novel expresses his philosophical beliefs and shows that a person does not really understand the significance of human life, until they are facing their own death. After reading this novel I understand his viewpoint, and somewhat agree with what he believes in. While reading this novel, I noticed how Camus involves his philosophical belief of absurdity through the main character. Absurdity is the state of being ridiculous or widely unreasonable. The main character in this novel fits that definition perfectly. The main characters name was Meursault. I was able to tell after the the first few pages that the way he thought and the way that he viewed life was absurd.†¦show more content†¦The fact that he does not love her is not a problem. I just found the way that he told her he did not was an absurd way to answer. By him saying that her questions is irrelevant shows that he Meursault does not care about the way she feels. What is even more absurd is the facts that Meursault agrees to marry Marie after he made it clear that he does not love her. Meursault disregards for Maries feelings is not the only cruel thing that he has done to a woman. Meursault and his neighbor come of with a plan to flat out disrespect Raymonds ex-girlfriend. What they planned to do was to right a nasty, inappropriate letter to her, so that Raymond could sleep with her again. Raymond planned to have sex with her, then to spit in her face right after and kick her out. I can understand that Raymond is mad because she cheated but that does not make what they did okay. And what I found to be the most absurd thing about the entire situation was that it has nothing to do with Meursault. He did that for no reason and it was unnecessary. The next example of absurdity that I noticed was the the situation with him killing the Arab man. Raymond told Meursault that he was being followed by 3 Arab men. Apparently one of those men is the brother of Raymonds ex-girlfriend. Eventually the 3 men meet up with Raymond and Meursault and a fight breaks out. This was not the first violent altercation. During another incident