The Meursault Investigation By Camus: An Analysis

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As humans, we all like to think we are unique creatures, but there are certain aspects in life that make us all the same. One thing that unifies a mass group of people is religion; religious groups consist of millions of unique individuals that follow the same faith and have the same morals. We like to think other religions that are not ours are lesser or wrong, but in reality all religions aim to achieve a similar goal. Religion is everywhere, although some people choose not to practice it, some grow out of it but others stick with their faith forever. In Camus’ The Stranger, Meursault is portrayed as a non-religious person. In Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, Harun was raised Muslim, but grows out of it once he feels like God is really not there for him. …show more content…

When asked if he believes in God during his trial he says no. This causes an uproar in people’s opinions of him and they think he is crazy. But people failed to see he is a person who practices absurdism. An absurdist believes that religion is a social construct made to give meaning to something senseless. This is interesting coming from a man who lives in France. The most practiced religion in this area is Christianity. It’s also not that Meursault hates religion, but he doesn’t like it forced upon him. When he gets put in a cell with the, Chaplain he tells the man he is living the life of a dead man. He refuses to spend his last minutes before death on God. Meursault conveys an atheist persona, and in this French culture it appears as though he has a bad personality. Once he says he does not believe in God, people do not see him as a sane man anymore and push him more on the guilty

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