Outsiders In Perfume By Patrick Suskind And The Outsider By Albert Camus Homework Help

Topic: Outsiders In Perfume By Patrick Suskind And The Outsider By Albert Camus

In life human beings certainly crave and develop the need to make social contacts with other beings in the society. Relationships therefore form an integral part of life despite age , sex and nationality but this is not the case with the two main characters that are presented in the novels The Outsider by Albert Camus and ‘Perfume’ by Patrick Suskid.   Meursault in the ‘Outsider’ and Grenouille in ‘Perfume’ do not in any way demonstrate the normal crave or even the need to establish a relationship or healthy social contacts with any body. Grenouille is never at any one instance found to have established any social relationship with any one or demonstrate significance or need to have any hence he is psychologically and emotionally detached from the society.

In the character of Meursault a relationship was not in any way a necessity or priority. Meursault just like Grenouille is also very psychologically detached from society and the world that surrounds him. He demonstrates a lot of emotional and psychological indifference to other characters such as his lover and also his mother. Events that are significant to the society such as death of parents or marriage proposals are not of any interest to him on a sentimental level. He does not demonstrate any care for his mother’s death or the fact that Marie is in love with him. He does not make any attempts to hide his lack of outward grief as he doesn’t even shed a tear over the death of his mothers (Camus, 2006). Meursault’s indifference implicitly challenges the moral that are socially accepted which require one to at least have some remorse over death. His lack of outward grief and atheism makes the society consider him an outsider, a monster and a threat.

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