imported>Thomas Wright Sulcer |
imported>Howard C. Berkowitz |
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| A [[person]] not [[knowledge|known]] by [[people]], who is not a [[friendship|friend]] or [[acquaintance]] but an [[outsider]] or [[foreigner]] or [[newcomer]]. The [[etymology]] of the [[word]] is from the [[French (language)|French]] ''estrangier'' meaning [[foreign]] or [[alien]] and from the [[Latin (language)|Latin]] extraneus meaning foreign or [[external]] or ''outside of''. The [[author]] [[Albert Camus]] wrote a [[novel]] called ''[[The Stranger]]'' which expressed the [[existentialism|existentialist]] [[philosophy]] which is about a [[man]] who is ''strange'' to himself as well as others, who [[murder]]s another man seemingly arbitrarily, is tried and [[convicted]], and ultimately sentenced to [[death]]. In [[Greek tragedy]], according to the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[playwright]] [[Sophocles]], [[Oedipus]] in the [[drama]] ''[[Oedipus the King]]'' did not know his [[father]], who appeared to him as a ''stranger'' along the [[road]], and during a [[quarrel]], killed his own father without realizing it. | | A [[person]] not [[knowledge|known]] by [[people]], who is not a [[friendship|friend]] or [[acquaintance]] but an [[outsider]] or [[foreigner]] or [[newcomer]] |
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