The Absurd Morality of Death in The Outsider Essay -- The Outsider Dea

The Absurd Morality of Death in The alienIn The noncitizen by Albert Camus, death can clearly be seen as asignificant image - there being six deaths mentioned in total. In PartOne we are shown the natural death of Meursaults get down andMeursaults murder of the Arab, and in Part Two we are presented withthe parricide of a familiar/son and the later(prenominal) suicide of theperpetrators, another parricide that is to be tried after(prenominal) Meursaultscase and the death penalty pronounced on Meursault. Through thesedepictions of non-homogeneous deaths, Camus shows clearly the conflicting andoften arbitrary treatment of death in spite of appearance society, a treatment thatreveals a admiration between the motives behind acts and the subsequentresponse to the completed acts, which ultimately reflects the natureof the absurd prevalent in the novel.Section One deaths directly linked to MeursaultMrs Meursaults FuneralDeath, as an important image, is realized in the very firstsen tence of the book, Mother died today.1 The simplicity and outspokenness of this statement is shocking for the reader, and leads usto try to understand what sort of firearm Meursault is - a task that wediscover later has been laid as a trap for us. However, even thoughthis first sentence is simple and direct, it is confuse in the verynext sentence, Or maybe yesterday, I dont know.2 This confusionover the time of the death can be generalised to the band ofthe death, which are in this case unclear, and indeed we are nevertold what the progress to of Mrs Meursaults death was. All we have are theallusions to her age, About sixty,3 and her friend, who was anold cosmos4 that could not prevent himself from fainting (like adisloca... ...t, The Outsider (Penguin Classics), p60.13 ibid. P69.14 ibid. P63.15 ibid. P64.16 Ibid. P85.17 Ibid. P85.18 Ibid. P57.19 Ibid. P58.20 Ibid. P58.21 Ibid. P6022 Camus, Albert, The Outsider (Penguin Classics, 2000), p6423 Ibid. P68.24 Ibid. P98.25 Ibid. P9 9.26 Ibid. P11627 Ibid. P103.28 Camus, Albert, The Outsider (Penguin Classics, 2000), p104.29 Ibid. P109.30 Ibid. P109.31 Ibid. P114.32 Ibid. P112.33 Ibid. P115.34 Ibid. P117.35 Ibid. P117.36 Camus, Albert, The Outsider (Penguin Classics, 2000), p77.37 Ibid. P78.38 Camus, Albert, The Outsider (Penguin Classics, 2000), p 78.39 Ibid. P7840 Ibid. P82.41 Ibid. P82.42 Ibid. P102.43 Camus, Albert, The Outsider (Penguin Classics, 2000), p116.