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The theme of the World Literature text is 'the outsider'. Compare the ways in which Mersault, Antigone and Gregor may be defined by that term
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... The theme of the World Literature text is the outsider'. Compare the ways in which Mersault, Antigone and Gregor may be defined by that term In every society there is an outsider, a person who stands out amongst the crowd, someone who does not fit in with the norm. Most of the time it is obvious who the outsider in a group is, but sometimes it takes a deeper look into the personality and characteristics of a person to see the traits that make the person an Outsider. The characters that will be compared are Mersault from Camus's "The Outsider", Sophocles's Antigone and Gregor Samsa from Kafka's Metamorphosis. Each of these characters is portrayed as an outsider in their own society. In some of the texts it is obvious which ways make the characters an outsider, in others there are more subtle ways that influence the reader into seeing the character













