The Subject Of Humanity In Albert Camus The Guest
In the story “The Guest” by Albert Camus, the author explores the subject of humanity when one is presented an anomalous situation. In the beginning, an old gendarme brought a prisoner, an Arab, to Daru and ordered him to bring him to prison because he was accused of murdering his cousin. Even though the Arab was a criminal, Daru treated him like a guest and the prisoner was very surprised why he acted so humane; by the time it was night Daru made a bed for the prisoner in same room as he was sleeping and Daru explained to him that, “Men who share the same rooms, soldiers or prisoners, develop a strange alliance as if, having cast off their armor with their clothing, they fraternized every evening, over and above their differences, in the