Essay Question

Discuss the authors’ inclusion of “the outsider,” “the alien,” in the works we have studied.To what effect does the writer incorporate or alienate “the other” into his or her discourse?
WORKS THAT HAVE BEEN STUDIED:
Molière, Imaginary Invalid; Diderot, Swift, Pope; and Behn, Oroonoko
Brent, Narrative of a Slave Girl; Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake
Byron, Shelley, Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Burns; Hawthorne, The Minister’s Black Veil; Maupassant, The Necklace; Montagu,“Letters,” Wollstonecraft, excerpts from Vindication of the Rights of Women,online sources.; Shelley, Frankenstein.