The human being has a limited conscience, which perceives the world in one way. No other realities are being considered, for our minds are inflexible and in denial. Is the human scared to live in an incomprehensible world? For this matter, humans egocentric as a race. We seclude our minds from millions of possibilities, just so we can live at peace with a simple thought: we are the world. Society has maintained intellectual capacities and skepticism within barriers and named those outer terrains: tabu. Nevertheless, Meursault stands between these two lines. His mind is positioned on a thin obstruction between human reality and reality. This is why he is perceived as deranged. His capacities or incapacity's of thought do not follow humanities guidelines for gifted, but simply crazy. Has Mersault been judged without recognition of his unique perception of life? Have we underestimated his value?
“I noticed that everyone was waving and exchanging greetings and talking, as if they were in a club where people are glad to find themselves among others from the same world. That is how I explained to myself the strange impression I had of being odd man out, a kind of intruder” 84.
Who is the intruder exactly? Are the intruders the mass of corrupt lawyers, or the simple man who sits among these? Mersault lives in a world where everyone is an object, even himself. This character is a symbol, he is the intruder in the world of “justice.” Justice: is defined as righteousness. However, how does society know right from wrong in a world where reality is undefined? Who really has the power of justice? For this reason, Mersault cannot be judged within human kind’s terms.
Society is corrupt, for truthfulness is only a myth. Mersault does not believe in this, so why has he been called a stranger in a world where no one truly knows who they are. We are all strangers to ourselves. Mersault is human kind’s secret.
“What awaited me back then was always a night of easy, dreamless sleep...as if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent” 97.
At the end, humanity lives in a mental state of naiveness. “Reality defines ultimate comprehension.” (existencial aphorism) We will remain unaware of our surroundings, we will remain innocent. We will remain blissfully existent.
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