Essay examines the tensions of power and responsibility highlighted by the stranger in Ondaatje’s narrative, suggesting ethical insights.
This essay examines the role of the stranger in developing an ethic of responsibility in Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table . It demonstrates that this figure installs a tension between the operation of power, which limits the recognition of human lives, and responsibility, which seeks to safeguard those lives.
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