Part VI: Absolution

There is no good and there is no evil.

At least, that's what Camus appears to be saying with the The Stranger. Meursault is the most logical person in anything we've ever read and he seems to recognize that good and evil are just arbitrary words that we assign to things that we do or don't agree with. Meursault kills a man, and when told that he should be feeling guilty, he simply cannot because he does not think of it as an evil act. He doesn't think of it as a good act, simply an action that he carried out. In this sense, I agree with Meursault. What I've been saying in many of my posts is that good and evil is relative. That what may appear to be evil to one person could be the most pure act in another person's eyes. To take it one step further, it could be said that "Good" and "Evil" are just labels that we assign to the things we think oppose or support us. A devout Christian might call an Atheist evil because he doesn't believe in God, but that Atheist could be donating millions of dollars to charity, adopting needy children, etc. The point is, evil can be looked at as merely the opposition to your own ideas that you view as "Good." Just as Meursault is seen as a threat to society because he does not go along with what society tells him he should.