What if the past had no meaning and the only part of our lives that mattered was what was happening now? To further compound the problem, any hope for any form of salvation and eternal life from a God is entirely vain; that when life is ended, all forms of existence are also ended. Such a desolate point of view is illustrated in Albert Camus's The Stranger. Camus used characters such as the protagonist Meursault to establish his belief that life is nothing more than a physical existence and that one can only define the value of their lives based on the events that occur at the time in question. Whether Camus himself agreed with this view is irrelevant, because throughout his novel, the stark contrast between Meursault and the society he found himself in clearly embodied Meursault as an abnormal sociopath . The events resulting from the protagonist's detached and brutally honest personality, as well as lack of moral conscience, illustrate how amorality can be comparable to insanity. Although little character development occurs in Meursault, subtle differences are observed when comparing him. at the beginning and end of Camus' novel. The extent of Meursault's madness was surprisingly noticeable at first. However, in the end, his so-called "madness" was demoted to an accepted philosophy of understanding, neither moral nor immoral. Meursault was an extremely passive, discouraged and disconnected nihilist. From the beginning, it became clear that Meursault did not conform to the popular pressures of Christianity that Algerian society was experiencing in the 1940s. In fact, Meursault believed that life had no real purpose and that there was no had no God in heaven. This alone did not describe the... middle of paper ...... uh may have been influenced to reinforce their religious beliefs. Reading about how dark and gloomy Meursault's philosophy was, as well as its less than desirable effects, could have easily led the reader to disagree more with Camus's original intent. Regardless, Meursault's social disorder has proven useful both as a trigger for conflict and as a philosophical encouragement. Albert Camus used The Stranger to develop the idea of ​​a singular, uniquely physical life. This development is established through the protagonist, Meursault, and his thoughts. To some, Meursault's philosophy may seem, to a certain extent, madness. Needless to say, Meursault is a sociopath, incapable of understanding the how and why of what he does. His mental defect contributed to the plot of the story as a whole and also encouraged the reader to re-evaluate or strengthen his personal beliefs..