INTRODUCTION
In Camus’ The Stranger, one of the more interesting characters is Meursalt, a strangely detached, numb, borderline misanthropic figure who does not have any sense of right or wrong, good or evil. It is as though he feels nothing; he is an atheist, and reacts with cool detachment to proposals of marriage or the death of a family member. At the same time, he is filled with turmoil, particularly once he is given the death sentence because of a murder he commits. Meursault is the quintessential existentialist; he sees no point to the world, and attempts to merely view it as it ...
