Why You Feel So Alienated in this Society| The Stranger| Camus

Albert Camus’ The Stranger is a powerful philosophical novel that exposes the hypocrisy of society’s morality by placing an emotionally indifferent man on trial—not for murder, but for refusing to conform. Meursault, a French Algerian clerk, is condemned not because he killed a man, but because he did not cry at his mother’s funeral. Through his arrest, trial, and eventual execution, Camus reveals how society punishes emotional disobedience more harshly than real violence.

This video explores the full synopsis of The Stranger, tracing Meursault’s detached life, the absurd murder on the beach driven by heat and sunlight, and a courtroom obsessed with moral appearances rather than truth. The trial becomes a spectacle where Meursault’s lack of grief, refusal to believe in God, and rejection of social rituals label him a monster and an antichrist.
As the story unfolds, Meursault emerges as Camus’ absurd hero—a man who lives without illusion, rejects false meaning, and finds peace in the universe’s silence.

Even facing death by guillotine, he achieves a strange happiness by accepting the absurd nature of existence and the gentle indifference of the world. His calm acceptance enrages society, revealing humanity’s fear of emotional honesty, death, and a meaningless universe.

This video examines why society sees emotional conformity as the highest moral law, how Meursault’s happiness challenges traditional ideas of guilt and redemption, and what Camus’ philosophy of absurdism teaches us about freedom, authenticity, and the silence of the universe.


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Timestamps:
00:00 intro
01:06 synopsis of novel
06:33 how not crying became a major crime
10:16 what makes society even more furious but meursault happiest
15:29 the silence of universe and fear of unknown


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