Byron

Term Paper Title	Byron
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byron

Boozer
English
11/4/95
The Byronic Hero

     In Byron�s poem, �Childe Harold�s Pilgrimage� the main character is portrayed as  a dark brooding man, who doesn�t like society and wants to escape from the world because of his discontent with it.  Through the poem we see the strong resemblance the Byronic hero has to many of todays popular characters, such as Batman.
     In the third stanza of the poem we learn that Childe Harold is the product of a long line of nobility.  �Childe Harold, was he hight-but whence his name and lineage long.�  Bruce Wayne who is Batman is too the product of an extremely wealthy family.       As with Bruce Wayne, Childe Harold is bothered by his family ties.  �But one sad lose ruins the name for ay.�  This line shows that Childe Harold is upset with the reputation that he has inherited from his family.  Just as Bruce Wayne d   �oes Childe Harold strives to break this mold and become someone who isn�t associated with the likes of his ancestors.  In Childe Harold�s case he breaks this mold by running away from his father�s castle and exploring nature. Bruce Wayne on the other hand invents himself a new identity that differs in every way from the preset mold into which he was born.
     In the fourth stanza Harold tells us that Childe Harold is unhappy and upset with the society around him.  �Then loathed he in his native land to dwell, which seemed to him more lone than Eremite�s sad cell.�  Childe Harold is extremely miserable with the societyin which he is forced to live.  He feels so isolated that he compares his life to that of a hermit�s.  Stanza ten reads �If he had friends, he bade adieu to none.�  This proves that Childe Harold did not have many friends, and if he did their friendship was not highly valued.  Bruce Wayne too comes across as an extremely depressed and alone individual.  He has n   �o friends in the films, except for Alfred his butler.  Both characters share the same feeling of disassociation.  Neither has the desire to associate with others than themselves.
     There is a woman in the lives of Childe Harold�s life and Bruce Wayne.  �Had sighed to many but though he loved but one, and that loved one, alas could ne�er be his.�  This woman as explained in the passage is the only woman that Childe Harold will think about.  Although he has had the chance for many others one woman will always win his affection.  The one problem with this love is that the woman for whom he strives can never be his.  In Bruce Wayne's case Michelle Pheifer is the woman whom he loves.  Although he would do anything for her she never seems to show a great interest toward him.  Every time he seems to have the chance to win her over something intervenes, and his chance is taken away.
     Out of his disgust and ...

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