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The Stranger

What is justice? Is it when a person's demise makes society feel better? Or is it when a felon gets acquitted of all charges brought against him? Wherever there is justice, there is obscurity. No matter how it is looked at, there is no real justice in the judicial system. In Albert Camus' The Stranger, Meursault did not receive justice in his trial because his unfair trail did not give him adequate time to speak in his own defense, his character witnesses' words were twisted, and his sentence was too severe.

Usually, during a trial, the defendant is given time on the witness stand to plea his innocence, and/or explain why he committed the crime. Meursault, however, was brought before the judge and asked yes or no questions. This left him with little or no time to plea his case. Before he could say anything else, he was back on his way to the jail. Meursault said, "I didn't even have time to think. I was taken out, put into the van, and driven to prison..." (Camus88). At first he did not know what was going on, but knew he wanted to say something. Then every time he would try to say something, the next day in court, his lawyer would simply say " Just keep quiet- it won't do your case any good" (Camus98). Meursault's lawyer would


During the trial, the character witnesses for Meursault were called to the stand one by one. Although they were thought to be helping him, they were really making him look even more like a monster. The first to be called was the director of the home Meursault's mother had stayed in. The prosecutor asked him questions about Maman, and if she talked badly about Meursault during her stay at the home. The director replied " 'yes, but that some of it was just a way the residents all had of complaining about their relatives' "(Camus89). The prosecutor twisted the words of the director and made it look as though Meursault was a bad son for putting his mother in a home, but the director was merely saying that all of the people in the home did it. The next witness was the caretaker. He spoke of how he and Meursault had smoked and drank coffee together by the side of Maman's dead body. This made the jury believe that Meursault was a bad son, and had no respect for the death of his mother. The prosecutor said " 'And they will conclude that a stranger may offer a cup of coffee, but that beside the body of the one who brought him into the world, a son should have refused it' " (Camus91). According to the prosecutor, having a cup of coffee near the body of his dead mother made Meursault a bad son. After the caretaker came Thomas Perez. After his testimony the jury would have reason to believe that Meursault did not cry at his mothers funeral. Then, it was Celeste's turn to defend Meursault. The only thing Celeste could keep saying was that Meursault had some bad luck. This should have helped Meursault, but the prosecutor just kept twisting the words of everyone put on to defend Meursault's character. After Ce

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