Albert Camus The Guest

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[name] [name] [instructor] [subject] [date] Albert Camus ' The Guest Published in 1957 , Camus ' The Guest ( L 'Hote ) is considered as one of his most important works . It reflects his major philosophies . it portrays the act of making moral decisions in this world of opposites . As with other books he wrote such as The Silent Men and The Adulterous Woman ' these stories are presented as similar realistic accounts (BrA (c )e 152 . The stories are made to reflect real life with the characters acting the way real people would in the real world . The story is basically about Daru 's (the school master ) problem of making a moral decision regarding what to do with the Arab prisoner that was left under his supervision by the gendarme Balducci . The intended ambiguity of the story will leave its readers with many questions regarding the story . It is left to the reader on how to analyze and conclude regarding these questions . The only meaning comes from the events that occur , and this is for a large part left up to the reader . This reflects Camus ' belief in free will for he allows his reader to freely interpret and find meaning in the ambiguity of the text (Perrine 215 . He believes that the world is much like this . full of ambiguity which leaves the people to make important decisions . Towards the end of the story however , Daru fails to make his own decision regarding what he would do to the Arab so he then leaves the prisoner to decide regarding his own fate . freedom or imprisonment . Ultimately , the prisoner chooses imprisonment . as to why , that is one of the ambiguities left to the reader to conclude upon . The issues tackled in the story that serve as its major themes are morality , solitude , freedom , the limits of human knowledge , and the absurd . Morality The biggest moral problem in the story would probably be Daru 's dilemma of what he should do with the prisoner . He does not know anything about that Arab man . He does not know whether he is truly guilty or not . He was merely ed by Balducci to deliver that man to prison . He knows that he is not in a position to judge the Arab . In the end , he fails to make his own decision so he makes the prisoner decide for himself . In line with Camus ' philosophy , he believes in living up to your decisions whatever they may be because it is this freedom we have to make our own decisions that make us human as said by Patrick McCarthy in his book entitled Camus . Daru decides...