The Stranger By Albert Camus

Man are slowly withdrawing themselves from society as the world evolves and changes to keep up the future. Modern authors use alienation as a main theme in novels. The Stranger by Albert Camus tells about a man who alienates himself and seems to have no emotion on what he says or does. He explains what a modern man feels in his book. The modern man in the novel is someone who isolated himself from society, has no emotions and lacks the discovery of self.
Meursault is a stranger in his own society on how he feels about the world. He lacks emotions that normal humans have like depression, or joy. When his mother had died, he lacked sympathy for her passing as her son. This shows how little he acknowledge emotions that usually occur in a passing of family or friends.He does not mourn over his mother’s death and seems to be expressionless and emotion on events that had happen. He does not understand why emotion occur in humans. Meursault

When Marie asked him whether they should get married or not, he said it did not make a difference if they were and that he did not love her.(41) This shows how he has no attraction to Marie, yet he still wants to have Marie or woman around him. He does not cherish who knows, and does not know himself. He estranges himself from society which does not allow for him to discover himself as a person with emotions. Another example of Meursault’s lack of knowledge of self is his murder of the Arab. He did not know he had committed a horrendous crime in murder the Arab, he knows people die all the time, and does not recognizes what he did wrong until the end. He slowly a waits for his death, as he knows it would be happen and expresses relief that he knows his time has come for him to die. Meursault locks himself in this existential world which does not allow him to discover himself as a person with emotions and expression of