... bad after." (Hemingway) Every person on earth follows a moral code that defines his or her actions. Mersault of Albert Camus" The Stranger and Raskolnikov of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment follow similar [existentialist] moral codes that regulate their attitudes toward death and religion. Mersault seems to possess none of the usual conventions of morality. He feels no remorse toward either the death of his mother ... of the universe. Mersault makes it apparent that he does not take seriously the gravity of his actions under the judgment of the law. Furthermore, he damns himsel...

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