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A five page paper which looks at the way the concept of the outsider is treated in Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway', Steinbeck's 'East of Eden' and Camus's 'The Outsider'.
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which allows the author to present alternative aspects of both society and individuals, in the sense that the community can be defined not only through its own moral and ethical
standards, but also through those of the character who stands outside, and comments openly or implicitly on the virtues and shortcomings of the community. In some works the character who
is marginalized is one who is completely disconnected from the majority, unable or unwilling to participate in normal social activities, whereas in others the character in question is placed at
the centre of the community, and their alienation derives from their own motivations and moral values.
It is interesting, for example, that the title of Camuss LEtranger is translated both as the stranger and the outsider, despite the fact that there are
subtle differences of meaning between the two terms. A stranger tends to be defined to someone who is new to the community, or someone who is not familiar to others;
there is always the potential for the stranger to become a friend. In a sense, being a stranger can be seen as a temporary condition, one which is waiting for
increased recognition and familiarity for the strangeness to be lost.
The term outsider, on the other hand, implies that the individual is permanently on the edge of the community, and apart from it: someone who is, consciously or unconsciously,
divorced from the mainstream and marginalized. In some
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