The Outsider

In the outsider Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault his anti-hero will not lie. When his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random Act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers his lack of remorse Compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.