LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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always fighting for good against evil.
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fortunate in always coming out victorious.
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nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.
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devoted to religion above all things.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Byronic heroes are arrogant, intelligent, educated outcasts, who somehow balance their cynicism and self-destructive tendencies with a mysterious magnetism and attraction, particularly for heroines.
Detailed explanation-2: -Byronic heroes are characterized by having several particular traits. They may be angry, rebellious, seductive, and struggling with vices. They usually have high intelligence and emotional awareness-which tends to make them brood and be outsiders from society.
Detailed explanation-3: -Other examples of Byronic Heroes from 19th-century Western literature include Heathcliff from Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Captain Ahab from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although the majority of literary scholars agree upon the fact that the first literary Byronic hero was Byron’s Childe Harold, the protagonist of Byron’s epic poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, however, many literary scholars consider Lord Byron himself to exemplify his Byronic hero.