Albert Camus Changes
In the book the Stranger by Albert Camus, we are introduced to the main character immediately with a very tragic scenario of a death. The main character is a male, but he is not your average male shown by his actions and personality. But who is this strange man? his name is Meursault. He seems to lack emotion; because for major events in his life (such as the opening scene) that are full of emotion, but he shows absolutely no emotion to these events in his life. He also appears to be very detached from the world around him on a psychological level. Lastly, the main character is also a very honest man, which might help explain some of his strange actions. But could one’s personality and look on life be completely changed by one big event in
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This might have something to do with the fact that he is sentenced to die himself, but none the less, jail still had the ability to change him. Albert Camus wrote, “for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.” This quote from Meursault was at the very end after he had meat with the Chaplin. The Chaplin had tried to talk to Meursault multiple times now, and finally just invited himself into the jell cell. The Chaplin questioned Meursault on different things like God, after life, and if Meursault wanted to be forgiven for his sins. Obviously, Meursault wanted nothing to do with the Chaplin, let alone talk about these types of things because he did not believe in them nor did he care. The Chaplin continued to talk until he causes Meursault to have a mental breakdown. But this mental breakdown is what changes everything. This quote helps show how Meursault decided in this mental breakdown that peoples live have no big importance. That all of the events that take place in someone’s life have no effect on the world around them or how they outcome they are going to have. All of us are going to die eventually, just a matter of how and when. But no matter how weird it seems, all of this allows Meursault to find peace with himself and society, which completes who he is as a person, which causes him to change. Once he changes
This might have something to do with the fact that he is sentenced to die himself, but none the less, jail still had the ability to change him. Albert Camus wrote, “for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.” This quote from Meursault was at the very end after he had meat with the Chaplin. The Chaplin had tried to talk to Meursault multiple times now, and finally just invited himself into the jell cell. The Chaplin questioned Meursault on different things like God, after life, and if Meursault wanted to be forgiven for his sins. Obviously, Meursault wanted nothing to do with the Chaplin, let alone talk about these types of things because he did not believe in them nor did he care. The Chaplin continued to talk until he causes Meursault to have a mental breakdown. But this mental breakdown is what changes everything. This quote helps show how Meursault decided in this mental breakdown that peoples live have no big importance. That all of the events that take place in someone’s life have no effect on the world around them or how they outcome they are going to have. All of us are going to die eventually, just a matter of how and when. But no matter how weird it seems, all of this allows Meursault to find peace with himself and society, which completes who he is as a person, which causes him to change. Once he changes