The outsider in literature has a long gestation. One can stretch the notion back to the Greeks. Prometheus (8th century BC) might be termed the first outsider.
Prometheus became a figure who represented human striving, and the risk of overreaching or unintended consequences Mary Shelleyfor instance, gave The Modern Prometheus as the subtitle to her novel Frankenstein (1818) Prometheus taught mankind to use the fire that he had stolen from heaven for their benefit. He was punished by Zeus, chained to a rock where a vulture came to eat away his liver
Prometheus became a figure who represented human striving, and the risk of overreaching or unintended consequences Mary Shelleyfor instance, gave The Modern Prometheus as the subtitle to her novel Frankenstein (1818) Prometheus taught mankind to use the fire that he had stolen from heaven for their benefit. He was punished by Zeus, chained to a rock where a vulture came to eat away his liver
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