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The Use of Motives in The Outsider and Woman at Point Zero
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The Use of Motives in The Outsider and Woman at Point Zero First published in French as L'Etranger in 1942, Albert Camus' The Outsider is both a cleverly crafted novella as well as a demonstration of Camus' absurdist world view. Woman at Point Zero is another work in translation, published in 1983 by Egyptian-born Nawal El Saadawi, who candidly discusses and criticises issues of sexuality, social expectations and exploitation among the Egyptian public. Saadawi has become one of the leading feminists in the world, and has been threatened, censored, ostracised and even imprisoned for her beliefs and words. Similarly The Outsider is equally loaded ideologically, and is often referred to as an "existentialist" novel, which is arguably a somewhat far-reaching classification that can have many different meanings to many different people. As a whole however, existentialism refers to the idea that there is no "higher" meaning to human existence or...
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