In past literary discussions that our class has studied for our novels we have come to the topic of the Nature of Reality. After this study I was able to understand how Meursault's perception of reality was different from that of all the other characters in the book. This had caused Meursault to behave as in the story. Meursault is completely insensitive to everything that happens in his life because he finds no reason for it all. Since Meursault believed that he should not worry about anything, for example relationships, society or events in his life. Meursault believes that it is useless to try to explain everything in reality and have a rational reason for everything “I am not sleepy and I will not go anywhere”, Camus uses the futility of Meursault's legal appeals to demonstrate that all human beings are approaching the death at the same rate and that it is not possible to escape it. Meursault tends not to conform to social norms and is somewhat separated from society. The apathy of Meursault and society towards the funeral of Maman, his mother, shows the way in which Camus despises the value of human life. From this you can see his belief that life has no meaning. Meursault chooses to isolate himself from common human interactions and relationships. In my essay I will study the character's point of view on detachment and alienation from relationships and acceptance of social opinions. Examining the perspective of his life and how it leads him to kill a person can give me a better insight into Meursault's absurdist qualities. In The Stranger, relationships are key parts of the story. Meursault's interactions with society, relationships, and life events are shown through detachment, alienation, and acceptance. The author, Albert Camus, wrote The Stranger during the Existe... in the middle of the paper... significant being his contrast with members of conventional society. Towards the beginning of the novels he is an almost completely indifferent character. This is decidedly different from the image of a person that society presents. Meursault is only concerned with the physical world. It does not dwell on other things, such as knowledge or intelligence. He is also indifferent to many things that conventional society is emotional about. He can't find anything in his life worth working towards, whether it's his relationship with Marie or Raymond. He doesn't see the point of the concept of love and of marrying Marie. He also doesn't understand why his mother's death doesn't affect him at all. Through the examples given before we can see that through his absurd values he makes the decision not to care about what happens in life and to act differently from society..
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