The Life of Indifference and Alienation in Camus' The Outsider

Abstract

The Outsider is a novel by Albert Camus which depicts the life of an absurd hero, Meursault who willfully chooses to exclude meaning and purpose in his actions. He is not concerned about moral and immoral things or goods and evils. Rejecting the morality, he accepts to live with complete indifference being, detached with all sorts of emotions. Finally, he creates his own legacy in the conventional community by being completely indifferent to the world and makes himself an absurd figure who lacks emotional attachment. He struggles for his existence and overcomes the sufferings by resisting the world of absurdity by doing the absurd acts. This research makes exploration of his views about life, love, society, family relations, conventions in the light of absurdism. It shows how he struggles with the absurdities of the world in which he lives. It employees the philosophy of the absurd to analyze the text with the absurdities of the world in which he lives. It employs the philosophy of the absurd to analyze the text.