Couldn’t he see, couldn’t he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too. What would it matter if he were accused of murder and then executed because he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral? Salamano’s dog was worth just as much as his wife. The little robot woman was just as guilty as the Parisian woman Masson married, or as Marie, who had wanted me to marry her. What did it matter that Raymond was as much my friend as Céleste, who was worth a lot more than him? What did it matter that Marie now offered her lips to a new Meursault? Couldn’t he, couldn’t this condemned man see

Diction and Repetition: As Meursault is speaking, he embellishes the idea of human equality by using the word "privilege". Meursault states the "everybody [is] privileged," in other words, everyone is born with the same equality: life. Camus is able to convey that life itself is a privilege and that everyone is born with that privilege. In these lines, repetition can also be seen. Camus repeats phrases such as "couldn't he see" and "what did it matter" in order for the reader to understand that it doesn't matter the sin one commits or the person that one is, because at the end everyone is that same. In addition, the phrase "couldn't he see" shows the reader that the chaplain is blind to the truth that Meursault sees. The chaplain relies on his fate of a possible afterlife that may not exist--he is unable to understand Meursault's view on life.