The universal theme of general absurdity in the situation of social life has been pleasantly symbolized in the novel “The Stranger.” The hypothesis of the absurd has been imitated throughout the novel with the characterization of Meursault. In this context, Albert Camus regards the philosophy of the novel as lonely and sensual by highlighting the characteristics of Meursault in light of the absurd and existentialism. As the most intimate subject of history, Meursault has been approached as the murderer of an innocent Arab without having any reasonable foundation.
In an actual trial, the court sentenced him to death. The central point of the story is committing a crime and its punishment, which is justifiable in the eyes of the law. As an outsider, the author has pointed out some social defects with which the social absurdity has been revitalized. The Stranger is a novel written by Albert Camus, an Algerian-born author and truth seeker. The story centers on Meursault, who was initially the victim of social shame due to his inability to show overt symbols of distressed attitudes over the death of his mother. All the way through Albert Camus’s “The Outsider” he has been able to successfully expose dissimilar elements of absurdism through Meursault’s hesitant categorization. One of the high-quality cases at the point of his absurd feature is that when he doesn’t show much interest in his mother’s death when he says, “” Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know “neither does he cry at his mother’s funeral, in our society, a man who does not cry at his mother’s funeral runs the risk of being condemned.
The author, in this novel, has directed his best efforts to signify the attitude and feelings of those who are enterprising, selfish and passionate. He painstakingly criticized some defects in social life that are engrossed in prejudices and unequaled critiques of life. Sometimes the author has discovered some truth about crucial aspects of life. In these actions and reactions to the book, Meursault has critically identified himself as a man of peculiar beliefs where he has explored his own world of the absurd. Subsequently, the author has tried to detect the truth in a certain place where the absurd never occurs. In view of the above, it is evident that in the court of first instance he is asked to say that he regrets his crime, in a traditional way. Meursault, despite all the dangers, is comforted that, to establish the truth, he has done the right thing with care.
In this context, the author highlights the idea of social absurdity, “I didn’t waste it on God. He tried to change the subject by asking me why I didn’t call him father. That irritated me and I told him that he was not my father: he was on the same side as others “. The author here highlights social existentialism by creating social humor and mental philology of social absurdity.
