What can I say about the Courtroom in The Stranger by Albert Camus?
If you were studying the book in the original French version as I did, I would say that ‘le systeme judiciaire ast une machine a broyer’. To translate, the judicial system is like a cider press, a juice extractor that squeezes all a person’s resources out and leaves him dry and dissatisfied. Well, to answer your question simply teh whole concept ot justice is a complete farce in the book. As such there is no real justice in the book. The trial of Meursault is a parody of what it ought to have been. Firstly, it seems to us readers that Meursault is tried not for the murder of the Arab but for the apparently insensitive, heartless and unemotional way in which he buries his mother. He is accused of being ‘un monstre en moral'(an immoral person wo has no heart). Also , as the trial progresses, we find, as does Meursault, that is is a trila out of him, in which he has no part. He feels sleepy during the trial. To him, it is simple enough that he has killed the Arab, although he takes time t
