ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Manfred: A dramatic poem is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Gothic fiction.

Detailed explanation-2: -Manfred’s themes of guilt and forbidden passion only encouraged readers and critics to view it as autobiographical. Byron himself called it “a very wild, metaphysical, and inexplicable kind” of drama.

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Detailed explanation-4: -The story’s antagonist, Manfred is the ruler of Otranto, the grandson of the man who usurped Otranto from its former rulers. He is husband to Hippolita, and father to Matilda and Conrad.