Albert Camus' novel, The Outsider, demonstrates how Meursault, the central character is not as much a victim of his own nature as he is of social attitudes and of its justice system. We are shown the corrupt justice system that condemns him of his behaviour leading up to the murder, suggesting the "monster" was capable of premeditated murder. The justice system does not battle the case of the murder itself but still assassinates the character. However, Meursault is a victim of his own nature in part, as he appals society today with his emotional indifference towards marriage and life, yet this should still not be acceptable behaviour in condemning a man. In rejecting the social attitudes of the time, Meursault does set himself up as vulnerable and a threat to society. He chooses to reject societies lies and hypocrisy, so that he will not "act" sad about the fact of his mother's death and his unwillingness to accept God, whom he had never believed in, or the notion of redemption is again, why he is found gritty. Meursault does not die a victim as he chooses to remain true to his beliefs and dies happy.
             Meursault is only in part a victim of his own nature. Meursault lives simply for physical pleasure and does not critically evaluate or interpret the consequences of his behaviour. The death of his mother is a fact and it is not in his nature to feel sadness for something he cannot change. He dozes at the vigil and the next day, he drinks coffee, laughs at a movie, and has sex because he can. He does not behave in ways that would be false to him to "show" the correct socially approved mourning that is expected in the culture of 1942 Algiers. In doing what comes naturally to him, he is condemned because the justice system has created him as a "monster" that because of his attitudes is capable of murder, in their eyes. Meursault though cannot be seen as a "victim" beca...