• Ms. Dayana Mathew

Albert Camus’s The Stranger raised the eyebrow of many critics and the readers with the strangest character Mersault. It was not that he was bad but he was “the bad” that society never wanted to openly admitted. There is nothing like individuality and freedom of expression that can make the so-called society to raise its barrier and put a price tag on the person's head. Just by being himself and not following the so-called society’s cowardice values costed Mersault, his own life. It is easier to judge him as a murderer and a cold-blooded human based on his action and his lack of empathy for social norms. By using Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory, the author proves here that Mersault is not a bad human or a stranger but the familiar “id” that is repressed in every human.

Albert Camus, The Stranger, Divinity, Optimism, Id, Absurdist Philosophy

"A Familiar Stranger", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.d225-d228, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106433.pdf

"A Familiar Stranger", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppd225-d228, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106433.pdf