In The outsider by Albert Camus and Death and the maiden by Ariel Dorfman, the mind and souls of the main characters are struggling, one for freedom and the other for peace. We will see in this essay, how both individuals are getting help from their closely related friend and husband, how do they manage to support them in some terrible ordeals. The problems associated with them are often inside them so that only their partners can feel and see through their heart. In the first part of the essay we will discuss the case of Meursault. In a second part we will take a look at the other play by Ariel Dorfman. In a third and final part, we will see the resemblance of these two different relationships.

In The outsider, we have a typical and complicated crisis, the worse thing that could happen to a man. Meursault, the main character in the novel, is brought into court after committing a murder, he is then sentenced to jail and later to the death penalty. Marie is a girl in love with Meursault, but it's a one-way love, because he doesn't seem to love her that much, he respects and likes her, bu

In these two pieces of writing, there is a good resemblance of two different people getting help from other friends.

In both the novel and the play, the partners are trying to help as hard as they can, Marie is not very patient compared to Gerardo who will have to deal with this crisis all his life. His wife will never forget. Marie was completely in love with Meursault suddenly she changed her mind and feels completely disinterested of this man. We can also see that the characters that are getting help, don't know how to take other people's help. This is mainly why they are struggling they often feel offended.

t isn't deep in love with her. Marie helps Meursault when his troubles arrive, they are not even married but she still wants to help him, and she visits him in jail once, if they had been married she would have visited him more. He says 'Marie's first and only visit'. What brings them so close is probably the love Marie has for Meursault, she cares about him, for example, the day after the funeral of Meursault's mother, Marie sees that he is wearing a black tie and she asked him why this funeral clothes? He then tell her about what happened to his mother, Marie is of course shocked, even thou

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Approximate Word count = 816
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)