1788 65438+/kloc-0 was born in London on October 22nd, and his parents came from a declining aristocratic family. He was born lame and sensitive to it. At the age of ten, the hereditary title and property of the Byron family (Newstad Abbey is its residence) fell into his hands and became Byron VI. After graduating from Harrow College, he studied literature and history at Cambridge University on 1805- 1808. He is not a diligent student and seldom attends classes. But he widely read literature, philosophy and history works in Europe and Britain, and also engaged in shooting, gambling, drinking, hunting, swimming, boxing and other activities. 1March, 809, entered the House of Lords as a hereditary aristocrat. He attended the House of Lords and delivered some speeches, but these speeches clearly expressed Byron's progressive position of liberalism.
George gordon byron graduated from Cambridge University. He is a member of the House of Lords. When I was a student, I was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment. 1809-1811year, he traveled to Spain, Greece, Turkey and other countries, and was inspired by the anti-aggression and anti-oppression struggles of people from all over the world, and created the Travels of Childe Harold (1809-650). His masterpieces include Childe Harold's Travels and Don Juan (18 18- 1823). In his poems, he created many "Byronic heroes". They are aloof, fanatical and romantic, but full of rebellious spirit. Their hearts are full of loneliness and depression, but they despise small groups. Childe Harold is the first Byronic hero in Byron's poems. The most representative, combative and brilliant work in Byron's poetry is his long poem Don Juan, which describes the romantic stories of Don Juan, the son of Spanish aristocrats, such as travel, love and adventure, exposes the dark, ugly and hypocritical side of society and plays the battle song for freedom, happiness and liberation. Byron was not only a great poet, but also a fighter who struggled for his ideals all his life. He actively and bravely joined the revolution, participated in the Greek national liberation movement and became one of the leaders. From1809-1811,Byron traveled abroad to the East in order to "meet people, not just read about them in books", and also to sweep away "the harmful consequences of an islander staying at home with narrow prejudice". During his trip, he began to write poems such as Childe Haller's Travels, and he brewed future oriental story poems in his mind. The first and second chapters of Childe Haller's Travels appeared in February 18 12, which made Byron a star in London society. However, this did not make him compromise with the British aristocratic bourgeoisie. He knew the stubbornness, hypocrisy, evil and prejudice of this society and its ruling class from an early age, and his poems have always been a protest against all this.
1811-1816, Byron has been living in a constant emotional vortex. In his popular social life, there is a lot of love to take part in accidental amusement, and the affair of a young aristocratic poet is naturally more talked about. Byron proposed to an Anna milbank on 18 13 and married her on 18 15 1. This is the biggest mistake Byron made in his life. Mrs. Byron is a narrow-minded person, deeply bound by the hypocrisy of her own class, and can't understand Byron's career and views at all. One year after his marriage, he returned home with his daughter, who had just been born for more than a month, and refused to live with Byron, thus causing rumors. The British ruling class took this opportunity to take the craziest revenge on its traitor Byron in an attempt to destroy this poet who dared to be his enemy. The painful feelings of this period also made him write poems like Prometheus, expressing his determination to resist the oppressors to the end.
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In Byron's oriental narrative poems, there are a group of chivalrous tough guys. They are pirates, pagans and exiles. Most of them are arrogant, lonely and stubborn rebels. They are out of tune with the criminal society, fighting against fate alone and pursuing freedom always end in failure. Byron showed his uncompromising resistance to society through their struggle, and also reflected his own depression, loneliness and hesitation. These are all famous Byronic heroes in the history of literature. Because these images have the author's own thoughts and personality characteristics, they are called "Byronic heroes". [2]
George gordon byron's "Byronic hero" refers to a kind of characters in Byron's works. They are arrogant and stubborn, dissatisfied with reality, demanding to rise up and resist, and their character is rebellious; But at the same time, it seems melancholy, lonely, pessimistic, divorced from the masses, going its own way, and never finding the right way out. For example, Harold, the son of Childe Haller's Travels, Conrad, the hero of The Pirate (*The Corsair, 18 14), Manfred, the hero of the philosophical drama, and so on.
The thoughts and personalities of these characters are contradictory: on the one hand, they love life, pursue happiness, have fiery passion, strong love and extraordinary personality; Dare to despise the current system, and swear revenge with social evil forces, therefore, they are rebels and avengers of evil society. On the other hand, they are arrogant and independent, secretive and extreme. Their ideological basis is individualism and liberalism. They separated themselves from the masses in the struggle and had no clear goal, so they ended in failure.
Byronic hero is the product of the opposition between individual and society, and it is also the artistic reflection of the author's ideological characteristics and weaknesses. This kind of characters appeared in Byron's works one after another, which was of progressive significance to the violent impact of British feudal order and bourgeois society at that time. However, their individualism, anarchism and pessimism often bring negative effects to readers. Russian literary critic belinsky and poet Pushkin both pointed out the ideological weakness and harmfulness of "Byronic hero".