Camus attempts to convey and explain the existential philosophy by creating the fictional character Meursault. Feelings of aesthetic indifference and a personality that rejects and fails to understand any notion of absurdity are qualities that define not only him, but of Camus' vision of the ideal existentialist. While on trial, Meursault's prosecutor urges the jury to convict on grounds that "when the emptiness of a man's heart becomes...an abyss threatening to swallow up society," toleration is no longer an option. I say "toleration," as Meursault was never fully accepted into society from the onset of the novel. A stranger to everyone but himself, he never once yields an inch to those with contradicting philosophies. The view Camus most likely attempts to suggest is that which is quite similar to the nineteenth century philosoph who provided the basis upon which future thinkers would later expand, Soren Kierkegaard. "Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of the majority is illusory, formed by gangs who have no opinion- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion...while truth again reverts to a new minority." Thus Existentialism is a movement away from the influences of the masses, and emphasizes the importance of an individuality that results from an innate free will. Camus depicts a situation in which a man is stripped of his freedom, and describes Meursault's transition from a man once indifferent, to one who retains this indifference while at the same time is more enlightened, and to a certain extent ignorant. In examining this transition, it's necessary to first let's consider the series of events which landed the man in jail. Immediately...