Abstract

In this study, we try to explore the concept of “Meursault life” in a holistic context. The focus of the research is on “Meursault life” and its relation with “human life.” The research also analyzes many aspects of “Meursault life” and tries to gauge its effect on “Meursault life”. Finally, the research describes various factors, which are responsible for “Human life,” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Meursault life” on “Human life.”

Table of Contents

Abstract1

Introduction3

Discussion3

Conclusion9

Reference10

THE STRANGER

Introduction

Albert Camus was born in French colonial Algeria on seventh of November 1913. In the year 1914, his father died during the first word war. Albert, his mother, and his brother lived in a small apartment and shared that apartment with a paralyzed uncle and the maternal grandmother of the family. Is spite of the fact that his family was surviving in a condition of extreme poverty, Albert Camus managed to attend the University of Algiers, and supported his educational career by doing a number of odd jobs. Nevertheless, one of several severe attacks of tuberculosis forced him to drop out of school. The illness and poverty Camus had experienced in his youth had a great influence on his writing. (Rene 1964, pp. 519)

The novel “The Stranger,” was initially published in a subversive edition in the year 1942, during the time when there was the occupation of the German forces on France, this book gave a shock to the readers. For a number of French readers, the actions and the attitudes of Meursault was like an allegation against them. In this novel, Albert Camus has discussed the life of Meursault and his indifferent attitude towards life, and has discussed the attitude of society towards Meursault. Camus has described the life of an ordinary individual and the fact that how an ordinary person can get frustrated because of the failures, one has to face in life. (Cruickshank 1960, pp. 44)

Discussion

The Stranger was the first ever that was written by Albert Camus, Stranger is a story that has been crafted in a brilliant manner and through this novel; he has given his own illustration of the world. This novel is describing the tale of a young man namely, Meursault, who was emotionally disconnected with the world, and did not, had any moral values. Meursault does not show any feeling at the funeral of her mother, he does not have any believe in the existence of God and murders a person whom he does not know and without any evident motive. (Sagi 2002, pp. 143)

The absurdist philosophy of Camus says that the moral values that are possessed by a human being do not have any natural or rational basis. Hitherto, Albert Camus still did not approach the world with an attitude of indifference towards morality, and he had a strong faith that the deficiency of a higher meaning in one's life must not lead a person into desperation. Camus was also an unrelenting humanitarian. (Turner 1975, pp. 166)

This novel is describing the tale of a young French Algerian ...