The man behind the book, Meursault, has had many ups and downs throughout his times in this book. Living a very basic life in Algiers practically all nice and calm, until the call of his mother's death, where everything simply rolls down hill becoming bad and worse. Meursault lived as an everyday upstanding member of society, slowly his destiny catches up to him and he is soon brought face to face with his untimely execution. He never did anything particularly vile or wrongdoing to make such a dark fate be bestowed upon him, but the action of murder is something a little over the top- karma came full circle and, because of his actions, he was condemned to death. I personally believe, in the moment of the kill that Meursault committed, he mentally accepted any consequence that came his way. He was ready to go all the way with his execution, and ready to see it to the end. Throughout his life, he was a man with a clean record until that kill, then he basically signed away his fate. When he lived on his own, his destiny could’ve gone in any direction- then he started hanging out with Raymond, the ‘pimp’ if you will. From there on his destiny was clearly set towards one goal; his untimely death, and I feel like he stood by this fate to the end & accepted what eventually came back at him; karma. Meursault …show more content…
The mugger failed in his attempt and no one was gravely hurt, so Meursault shouldn’t have gone to take justice into his own hand playing judge, jury, and executioner. He should’ve gone to the authorities and seen the male rot in a cell, but his judgement for whatever reason was foggy, and for it he paid the price. Since Existentialism is free-will, and their existence is shown through the development of their own actions, I see that Meursault stood by the character he was made to