The main character of The Stranger Meursault closely resembles Sisyphus, the man who was cursed by absurdity to push a rock to the top of a mountain every time he fell. This describes the life of Meursault and the events that take place during the novel including the death of his mother, his relationship with Marie, the writing of the letter for Raymond, swimming with his friends, the murder of Arab, the trials, his imprisonment, the conversation with the chaplain. , and its inevitable demise.Albert Camus originally wrote The Stranger in French. The Stranger was written in the early 1940s in France and published in 1942 (Nobel Prize 1). The setting of the novel is located in Algeria, shortly before the Second World War. The title symbolizes the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical isolation (during his imprisonment) from the other characters in the novel. The tone is detached, sober, sometimes sarcastic and ironic. He wrote The Myth of Sisyphus around the same time he wrote The Stranger. During this period, he worked for the French Resistance in Paris (Nobel Prize 1). The metaphor of exile that Camus uses to describe humanity's predicament and the feeling that life is a futile and meaningless struggle may naturally come from a man fighting against a brutal and all-powerful regime far away. from his home. There is an absurdity in the conflict between man who wants to find reason and unity in the universe versus the universe which only provides him with mute and meaningless phenomena. The feeling of absurdity exiles us from the comfort of a meaningful existence, but the hope of finding meaning in life delays us from the consequences of the absurdity and meaninglessness of life. The chaplain asks, “Have you no hope?” And did you... middle of paper ......o took his daughter in exchange for a fresh water spring in Corinth. The absurd hero aroused the wrath of the gods (Camus Sisyphus 18). The second myth tells that Sisyphus captured the spirit of death so that no one would die. When the gods freed Death, his first victim was Sisyphus. Sisyphus told his wife not to offer any of the traditional funeral rites upon his death. He complained to Hades and asked to return to earth to punish her. Once out of hell, he refused to return and ended up dying of old age (Camus Sisyphe 28). Both myths end with Sisyphus' inevitable punishment of pushing the rock up the mountain every time it comes down, but "one must imagine Sisyphus happy." » (Camus Sisyphus 30). At the end of The Stranger, Meursault fully accepts his absurd position in the universe and can only conclude that he too is happy..