Stranger/Definition

A person not known by people, who is not a friend or acquaintance but an outsider or foreigner or newcomer. The etymology of the word is from the French estrangier meaning foreign or alien and from the Latin extraneus meaning foreign or external or outside of. The author Albert Camus wrote a novel called The Stranger which expressed the existentialist philosophy which is about a man who is strange to himself as well as others, who murders another man seemingly arbitrarily, is tried and convicted, and ultimately sentenced to death. In Greek tragedy, according to the 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.