Outcast

4 books featuring this archetype

The Outcast is excluded from community through stigma or difference. This figure’s perspective critiques dominant norms and reveals hidden rules.

Oedipus Rex cover

Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

429-425 BCE

Greek

Philoctetes cover

Philoctetes

Sophocles

409 BCE

Greek

Fabulae cover

Fabulae

Hyginus

1-100 CE

Roman

Gautreks saga cover

Gautreks saga

Anonymous

1300-1400 CE

Germanic, Norse