"Byronic heroes" are a series of individualistic rebel images created in Byron's works. They are imprinted with Byron's ideological temperament and personality. These rebels have outstanding talents. For personal reasons, they rise up against the power of the country, social order and religious morality, but they have no clear purpose of struggle; they pursue personal freedom, but often close themselves in loneliness and pride, and the struggle is always It ended in failure. Their mental outlook is rebellious, aloof, and romantic. The representative characters are mainly Condra in "Pirates", Harold in "Child Harold's Travels", and Manfred in "Manfred".
The Byronic hero is dissatisfied with reality and cannot find a way out. They are all enthusiastic, brave, strong-willed, proud and lonely, and they cherish the sorrow of the world and do not hesitate to fight against fate. In the end, they usually end in failure and death. They include pirates, pagans, and outcasts. Most of them are proud, lonely, and stubborn rebels. They are incompatible with the sinful society. They fight alone against fate and pursue freedom. In the end, they always end in failure. Through their struggles, Byron showed his uncompromising spirit of resistance to society, and at the same time reflected his own melancholy, loneliness and hesitation. Because these images have the author's own ideological and personality characteristics, they are called "Byronic heroes".
On the one hand, they love freedom, pursue freedom, advocate human fairness and equality, sympathize with the people's independent revolutionary struggle, despise autocracy, swear against the evil forces of society, and are determined to take revenge. Therefore, they are The rebels and avengers of evil society are the pursuers and advocates of freedom and equality. On the other hand, they were arrogant and independent, secretive and prone to extremes. Their ideological foundation was individualism and liberalism. They fought alone, far away from the masses, and had no clear goals, so they ended in failure.
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The most distinctive feature of Byronic heroes is "rebellion". Their rebellion is not only directed against specific authority and tyranny, but also against social norms and customs. In the end, this rebellion will rise to rebellion against abstract destiny. Rebellion against fate is often embodied or projected into resistance to existing authority and tyranny. For example, Harold rebelled against society by traveling far away; Manfred challenged the destiny of mankind by dying; Cain violently rebelled against the authority of ideology - God. ?
At the same time, unlike heroes in classical literature, Byronic heroes have certain non-heroic qualities, such as the melancholy, arrogance, and self-identity of Byronic heroes; for example, "Charl" There is a poem like this in De Harold's Travels: "(Harold) often felt strange pain when he was reveling in excess, and suddenly he frowned, as if he remembered the inexorable death of God. Long-standing hatred, but also the sadness of lost love seems to be hidden in the heart. "It should be said that the rebellion of the Byronic hero is highly personal, and he challenges everything with his own personality and emotions.
For example, Harold rebelled against bourgeois society alone; Manfred shouldered all his own and human sins alone, and resisted fate with destruction alone. They show the typical image of personal heroism of Byronic heroes. Their loneliness is inevitable, a necessary consequence of self-exile.
In oriental narrative poetry, Byron obtained his own unique creation with the characteristics of strong lyrical tone, strong subjectivity, extraordinary quality of the protagonist, emotional exaggeration, exotic mood, and galloping imagination. style. His poetic narrative does not follow the natural sequence of plots, but chooses the most vivid plot, starting from the key point of fate, and unfolds it in an explosive way; in image creation, he also repeatedly gives the protagonist his own characteristics, allowing the protagonist to enter the world. Extreme emotions and intentions show an aloof and rebellious character.
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