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Byronic Hero

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Kaitlyn Divine

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The End!

Thank you!

Examples

("Bye!").

("An Edgar Allan Poe Christmas").

("Severus Snape").

  • Severus Snape from Harry Potter
  • "Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights"("Byronic Hero" Craig White's Literature Courses).
  • "Lestat from Interview with a Vampire" ("Byronic Hero" Craig White's Literature Courses).
  • "Hugh Jackman in Wolverine" ("Byronic Hero" Craig White's Literature Courses).
  • "Rochester in Jane Eyre" ("Byronic Hero" Craig White's Literature Courses).
  • "Edgar Allan Poe" ("Byronic Hero" Craig White's Literature Courses).
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • "Batman, ... Han Solo and Darth Vader" ("Byronic Heroism")
  • Lord Bryon
  • V from V for Vendetta

Definition

("Lestat[1]").

("Quote of the Week").

("V for Vendetta").

  • Rarely female ("Byronic Hero" TV Tropes)
  • Physically attractive ("Byronic Hero" TV Tropes)
  • "Dark [and] handsome" ("Byronic Hero" University)
  • "Intelligent, perceptive, sophisticated, educated, cunning, and adaptable" ("Byronic Hero" TV Tropes)
  • "Rebellious, arrogant, anti-social or in exile, and darkly, enticingly romantic" ("Byronic Hero" Shmoop)
  • "Confident, abnormally sensitive, and extremely conscious of himself" ("Characteristics of the Byronic Hero")
  • ""Byronic hero"—a handsome, daring, yet sensitive nobleman rendered broodingly misanthropic by memories of a tragic past, including at least one grand but fatal love affair." ("English Literature (II)")
  • "[T]end ... to be consumed and finally destroyed by their passions and egos" ("Byronic Heroism"

Origins

("Lord Byron modelling the uniform").

("Sherlock Cats").

  • "The origins of the Byronic hero can be traced to John Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost" ("Byronic Hero" Shmoop).
  • Lord Byron can be considered the epitome of one
  • "distubing love affairs," "wife deserted him, taking heir infant child," "illicit [love] for his half sister," after marriage scandal went into exile for rest of life (Quennell)
  • Many "consider the first literary Byronic hero to be Byron's Childe Harold" ("Byronic Hero: Definition")
  • "Lord Byron developed the archetype of the Byron Hero in response to his boredom with traditional heroic and Romantic heroic literary characters" ("Byronic Hero: Definition")
  • "wanted a heroic archetype that would be ... more appealing to readers ... [and] more psychologically real" ("Byronic Hero: Definition")

Byronic Hero

By: Kaitlyn Divine and Jacquelyn Boals