... cigarette and drinks coffee beside her coffin, and sleeps with a new girlfriend the day of her funeral, he does not express any condemnation towards the way that Salamano treats his dog, or the way that Raymond treats his mistress. Society sees these actions as abnormally degenerate it is announced that he has 'no place in a society whose fundamental rules [he] ignored,'1 and he is therefore condemned for his failure to conform. Meursault is sentenced to death for not believing in god, and for his failure to act depressed at his mother's funeral. Hence, Camus provides the reader with a basis that is fundamental to understanding the everlasting conflict between the individual and a society whose ultimate desire is conformity. In order to prove how important conformity is to society, Camus sets up the trial so that Meursault, the defiant individual, must fight against the church and the state ...

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