Discriminating Anarchy A Criticism in Plot of Albert Camus' "The Guest" Who is responsible for whom? Is a prisoner the responsibility of an uninvolved individual? Can individuals with diverse backgrounds hold the same ideals of the same crimes to identical extents? Within the pages of The Guest, Albert Camus presents to the literary world a challenge. The question put to mankind is, again, as it was with Cain of Biblical times: “Am I my brother’…showed first 75 words of 932 total…

…showed last 75 words of 932 total…individual. He is independent. His own anarchism reigns. “And in that slight haze, Daru, with heavy heart, made out the Arab walking slowly on the road to prison” (Camus 1906). Daru stands in his hideaway schoolhouse, looking out over the plateau. Behind him are the drawings of the French rivers. The words pound into his heart, “You handed over our brother. You will pay for this” (Camus 1906). In his sanctuary atop his mountain, he stood alone.