Archetype
The outsider
Also known as: the stranger, the alien among us
A stranger to the community whose foreign perspective exposes its assumptions and whose presence disrupts it.
The outsider in fiction: 6 works
The Square's glimpse of higher dimensions makes him a heretical outsider to his flat world.
John the Savage's outsider perspective exposes the emptiness beneath the World State's comfort.
Valentine Michael Smith, human raised by Martians, sees Earth society as a total stranger.
The envoy Genly Ai's outsider view of Gethen exposes the assumptions of gendered society.
Jake enters the Na'vi as a stranger who comes to see his own people's world anew.
The ambassador Mahit is a provincial outsider navigating the empire that fascinates and threatens her home.