LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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Superman
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Dr. House
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Luke Skywalker
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Yoda
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gregory House: Designed as a modern-day version of Sherlock Holmes, Doctor House is also a Byronic hero. He is brooding and arrogant, yet he continues on his quest to solve medical mysteries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare’s Hamlet is sometimes considered a Byronic hero, as are some of the heroes of the Gothic literature of the late 1700s. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has Heathcliff, and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has Rochester, both often-cited examples of classic Byronic heroes.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -By Barbara Barnett: Batman. Severus Snape. Han Solo. Aragorn. Jaime Lannister. Roland in Stephen King’s Dark Tower. Sherlock Holmes (in his many guises). Intelligence. Magnetism. Troubled Past and Painful Present. The Classic Outsider. 14-Oct-2016