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An 8 page research paper that explores the relationship between Byron and his fictional creation, the Byronic hero. The writer examines Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Manfred.
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also passionate and capable of deep emotion. This character has appeared in various guises. It is the character that Clint Eastwood always plays, but he is also Heathcliff in Wuthering
Heights; Captain Ahab in Moby Dick; as well as the hero in Pushkins great poem Eugeen Onegin (Abrams, et al 1551). In all of these works, the protagonist is
basically the same character that was first modeled by George Gordon, Lord Byron, which demonstrates how influential the "Byronic" hero for succeeding generations of artists. This hero appears in Byrons
poem, Childe Harolds Pilgrimage and can also be found in its mature form in Manfred, where he is a "moody, passionate, and remorse-torn but unrepentant wanderer" (Abrams, et al 1551).
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage The Byronic hero is the embodiment of individualism. He is a dashing, devil-may-care traveler who considered the world to be his home. In Childe Harolds Pilgrimage,
which is essentially a travelogue, the narrators voice establishes the character of "Childe Harold" from the beginning of the poem. "For he through Sins long labyrinth had run,/Nor made atonement
when he did amiss" (lines 37-38). The sense of adventure that is pervasive in Byrons poetry also indicates something of his world perspective and mans place in the universe. Byron
makes it clear that he considered the ideal life to be of adventure and lofty purpose. In the preface to his first two cantos for Childe Harold, Byron
is emphatic that his protagonist is fictitious, a "child of imagination," yet he even went so far as to call his hero "Childe Burum," an early form of his family
name, in the manuscript version of the first cantos (Abrams, et al 1560). Furthermore, as Byron was probably well aware, one way to draw attention to a statement is by
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