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An examination of how pop-culture hero Batman exemplifies traits of the Byronic hero, using Byron's "Manfred" as textual support.

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"The both romanticized and flawed character whose presence is seen throughout the writings of Lord Byron, specifically in his poem "Manfred", known as the Byronic hero, has undoubtedly influenced the conception of modern pop-culture heroes. One such example is evinced by the brooding, eternally tormented yet relentlessly righteous character we have come to know and love - Batman. In both terms of his existence as a hero and the events which served as impetus to his decision to fight crime on the streets..."

Tags:Lord Byron, Byronic Hero, batman, anti-hero, gothic fiction

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The paper examines how the figure of the Byronic hero in "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" generates social criticism as well as illustrates principles of the aesthetic of Romanticism.

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"To undertake the project of comparing the Byronic hero in "Frankenstein" with a similar figure in "Dracula" is to acknowledge the Romantic sensibility that the novels share. How that sensibility informed character and theme in such texts as Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Stoker's "Dracula" can be seen in ways that Romanticism bubbled up from the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment in the early ...th century. Although Romanticism owed much to the Enlightenment, it deified feeling instead of reason, was suspicious of institutional constraints, entailed nature, mysticism, and conceptualized humanity as living..."

Tags:Frankenstein, Dracula, Byronic hero, Romanticism, Social commentary, Enlightenment

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The question of the degree to which Pushkin's characters of Hermann, from "The Queen of Spades," and Eugene Onegin, from Eugene Onegin, can be considered Byronic heroes is deeply intertwined in the issue of Pushkin's Romanticism, and how the Russian poet adapted the themes and models of a British Romantic poet to his own purposes. As this essay will argue, of the two characters Hermann is clearly the more "clear-cut" Byronic hero. In contrast, as will be seen, in the character of Eugene Onegin Pushkin created a figure whose narrative - while possessing Byronic elements - nonetheless transcends its original source material in important ways as Pushkin shapes Byronic themes and concerns to his own purposes.

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Pushkin's Hermann and Eugene Onegin as Byronic Heroes Outline Topic: Pushkin's Hermann and Eugene Onegin as Byronic Heroes Thesis: This paper will argue the thesis that while the two Pushkin protagonists - Hermann from "The Queen of Spades" and Eugene Onegin from Eugene Onegin both reveal the influence of the English poet Byron and that of his famous heroic creations, Hermann is the more clear-cut Byronic hero while in the character of Eugene Onegin Pushkin has created a hero that transcends his Byronic model in important ways. Bibliography:

Tags:russian, literature, pushkin

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This paper uses Lord Byron's poem "Manfred" as a means of illustrating the characteristic traits that have come to be known as the "Byronic hero." Examples from the poem are used to show these qualities in the titular characte, Manfred.

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"The Byronic hero exhibits a number of typical character traits that are not similar to the average heroic virtues of a hero. Instead the Byronic hero is often in possession of darker qualities, someone whose intellect, sensitivity and extreme self-awareness make him bigger than life. The Byronic hero is also someone who is often removed from society or someone who wanders in isolation. In Lord Byron's poem 'Manfred' we see perhaps the ultimate illustration of the characteristic traits of the Byronic hero in the titular character."

Tags:darkness, intellect, emotions, isolation, values, society, poem, Byron

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The paper proposes that in order to understand and explain the link between the concept of the hero in Byron's work and human sympathy, one has to firstly examine the complex relationship between Byron's romantic ideals and the reality of the world in which he found himself. The paper further analyzes how the hero in Byron's work is the one who opposes the restraints and restrictions of society and even rejects his own conventional humanity in the search for something greater and better. The paper concludes that Byron's vision implies a deep sympathy and concern for the human condition.

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"In other words, the hero in Byron's work is the one who opposes the restraints and restrictions of society and even rejects his own conventional humanity in the search for something greater and better. At the same time we also sympathize with the suffering and tragedy of the hero figure struggling to attain meaning in a world in which he is an alienated figure. It is this alienation from society in Bryon that elicits the sympathetic response in our understanding of the hero."

Tags:romantic, poetry, Faust

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This paper examines how the use of the concept of love in both poems is similar in that both poems distinguish between spiritual and physical attraction while calling both 'love'. It also discusses how both poets seem to ultimately (though Dacre- explicitly and Byron - most probably unintentionally) agree that males are more inclined - by nature - to physical relations and women - to the transcendent kind of love. In other words, the separation of love and sex, commonly considered as late twentieth century obsession, originated in the Romantic era.

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"In contrast, Charlotte Dacre's poem is only sixteen-lines long, arranged in four quatrains rhymed in a much less flamboyant abab scheme. The poem seems to be a letter/note from the author to her aspirant but uses a slightly more ornate language than Byron's. Dacre drops no name and belittles no one. No one in particular, that is: the very choice of Spanish for the title - Il Trionfo del Amor - is a very subtle way of telling all her male contemporary colleagues and readers alike, that she, too, is well learned and well read... Likewise, when she makes a direct reference to broader erudition, it is put in parenthesis and bites at the learned males and their perception of learned women. Indeed, "(So charms the witchery)", for being put in parenthesis and for insinuating she is familiar with witchery, could be read as teasing the contemporary (male) perception that "women's writing is an affront to God-given, 'natural' gender roles" (Gilroy, in Bygrave, p.183)."

Tags:amor, byron, charlotte, dacre, del, il, juan, poetry, romantic, trionfo

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This paper studies the life and the works of George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron, the most celebrated and vilified romantic poet during his lifetime. The author discusses the style, context, and morale of the works of Lord Byron, particularly noting his beliefs and perceptions of politics within the British government in his 1822 masterpiece, "Sardanapalus". The paper also analyzes Lord Byron's most creative literary stigma, "Don Juan", in which Byron wittingly commented on a plethora of concerns, including liberty, tyranny, war, love, sexuality, and hypocrisy; all of which, Byron insinuates, can be found within the walls of English high society.

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"Between the years of 1819 and 1823, Byron wrote his most famous piece, Don Juan, using the elements of comedy and satire that Beatty dignified as Byron's creative literary stigma. Through the use of various narrative perspectives, Byron wittingly commented on a plethora of concerns, including liberty, tyranny, war, love, sexuality, and hypocrisy; all of which, Byron insinuates, can be found within the walls of English high society. His use of irony and his brutally concise portrayal of human weaknesses precipitated widespread condemnation from his contemporaries, who subjected Don Juan and its author to an endless campaign of personal slander and critical abuse."

Tags:literature, poets

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This paper analyzes Lord Byron's poem "She Walk's in Beauty", which combines images of darkness and light to create a unique internal and external aura. The paper maintains that this aura surrounds the beautiful woman who he describes in his poem. Each one of Byron's three stanzas describes a natural, a physical and a spiritual aura which surround the woman. Byron uses images from the natural, physical and spiritual world to describe the emotions he has towards this particular woman, represented in images of both light and darkness. The paper concludes that, through his poem, Byron has combined the beauty of the natural world, the physical body and the spiritual being to create a timeless expression of love and admiration.

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"Byron's first stanza concentrates on the natural beauty of the woman who he encounters. "She walks in beauty, like the night/ Of cloudless climes and starry skies" (Ln.1-2) .Byron has immediately introduced us to a woman whose beauty is that equal to the beauty of nature. Her beauty is represented by the darkness of night. The image of night creates an aura that surrounds her. Byron is describing how beautiful he feels the night is and that this woman represents that beauty of night within her own aura. Nature is both day and night, both dark and light. In the first stanza the images of day light and dark night both represent the woman. The lines "All that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes," (Ln. 3-4) represent the combination of day and night within the woman. She is a combination of the best of the day and the best of the night. Her combination of dark and bright creates, "that tender night Which heaven to gaudy day denies" (Ln.5-6). She is not the overpowering "gaudy," brightness of day. She's the perfect combination of light and dark. Not even heaven bestows this beautiful light on the day. She is a pure, natural and heavenly creature on earth."

Tags:love, admiration, poetry, ideal, image, metaphor

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This biographical study examines the critical contributions to computer science by Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852). In addition to describing and analyzing Bryon's technical achievements, the study examines various personality traits and important facts from her life that demonstrate both the technical and human side of this fascinating individual, and that led to her unique contributions to the development of computers. The study also discusses the historical context in which Byron worked to show how the prevailing technological, social, and political environments negatively affected her abilities, as a woman during the Victorian era, to advance her scientific work. The study demonstrates that Augusta Ada Byron was both one of the most acute minds and most picturesque characters in computer history.

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"A major turning point in Augusta Ada Byron's intellectual development occurred in 1833, when at the age of 18 years she met the famous scientist Charles Babbage at a social gathering (Freeman, 1996; Tee, 1979). Babbage was already widely known at the time as the inventor of the so-called "Difference Engine," a machine that applied the method of finite differences to perform mathematical computations (Freeman, 1996). The machine had to capacity to store numbers and perform additions, thereby enabling tables generated by polynomials to be computed by a uniform process (Freeman, 1996). Impressed with the young Ada, Babbage invited her to visit the studio where he kept his engine and was delighted when she showed up two weeks later, along with her domineering and meddlesome mother (Freeman, 1996; Tee, 1979). Ada was captivated by the Difference Engine and began regular correspondence with Babbage in an effort to learn all that she could about the invention and about Babbage's other ideas (Freeman, 1996)."

Tags:charles, babbage, engine, difference

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This paper discusses how of all the English poets that comprise the Romantic period, Lord Byron (1788-1824), John Keats (1795-1821) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) stand as the quintessential masters of Romantic poetry. It examines how their contributions to the aesthetics of versification are highly representative of the Romantic period by reviewing Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Keats' major odes ("Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to Melancholy") and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

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"The great symbolic voice of the true Romantic poet can best be heard in John Keats' romantic odes. In "Ode to a Nightingale," Keats relates that his "heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" (1st stanza, lines 1-2), which shows that Keats longs for happiness and wishes to be free like the nightingale, a symbol of great importance to the Romantic poets, for it represents freedom of expression and flights of fancy into the sublime. Thus, this image conjures up the idea that the poet has drunk poison (hemlock) which illustrates his deep longings for a spirit free of pain and misery, a reflection of the often poverty-stricken lives led by a good number of Romantic poets."

Tags:ode, nightingale, urn, ancient, mariner, beauty