Meursault wonders how it is possible to judge someone with “true justice” if there are so many factors that can influence our behavior. This apparent lack of true justice is seen following the trial when Mr. Meursault if he does not conform to a belief that is representative not of society as a whole but of only a certain percentage? This was held against him during the trial when the Public Prosecutor said that “Not once in front of the examining magistrate did he show any emotion with regard to his abominable crime”(Camus 97). Who says that all people in society must be Christian? The notion that “all men believed in God” is shared by some people, including the magistrate, but surely it cannot be held against Mr. Antichrist” and says “I have never seen a soul as hardened as yours”(Camus 69), just because he fails to respond correctly. Meursault’s lack of emotion at seeing the cross seems unusual, so much so that he refers to him once as “Mr. According to the magistrate, criminals usually cry at the sight of the cross. Meursault to tell the truth but to confirm his own faith in God, to which he passionately adheres. Meursault during the questioning session, it could have revealed the magistrate’s desire not to convince Mr. When the examining magistrate waved the crucifix at Mr.
Meursault leads nowhere, the magistrate breaks out into emotional hysteria over his love for God and God’s benevolence to Mr. Meursault is arrested and is sent to the examining magistrate. For example, after having committed a criminal act, Mr. But that is exactly what The Outsider does, and it reveals just how unproportional and hypocritical our system sometimes becomes.
It would mock our ethics and our standards of living and reduce our courts to playrooms. This is a scary thought as we ourselves are members of a society and surely we cannot live in one that behaves absurdly. Something that I found fascinating and crucial in this book was the seemingly absurd nature of society. Meursault, the protagonist of the story, is bounded by the expectations and standards of society, standards that are set by his fellow inhabitants. As such, I thought that it would be nice to read one of his works. I chose this book partly because the title intrigued me and because I knew that Albert Camus was one of the most renowned writers of the 20th Century.
The book I chose to read was The Outsider, by Albert Camus.
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