![]() ![]() Gwynplaine in Victor Hugo's novel, The Man Who Laughs.The titular characters in Lord Byron's narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein.Darcy in Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice Edmond Dantès in Alexandre Dumas ( père)'s adventure novel, The Count of Monte Cristo.Andrei Bolkonsky in Leo Tolstoy's novel, War and Peace.The titular character in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.Alexander Romance account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great.As Napoleon, the "living model of a hero", became a disappointment to many, the typical notion of the hero as upholding social order began to be challenged.Ĭlassic literary examples of the Romantic hero include: The Romantic hero first began appearing in literature during the Romantic period, in works by such authors as Byron, Keats, Goethe, and Pushkin, and is seen in part as a response to the French Revolution. (See Tatyana Larina, Elizabeth Bennet, Eugenie Grandet, et al.) Usually estranged from his more grounded, realist biological family and leading a rural, solitary life, the Romantic hero may nevertheless have a long-suffering love interest, him or herself victimised by the hero's rebellious tendencies, with their fates intertwined for decades, sometimes from their youths to their deaths. However, another common trait of the Romantic hero is regret for their actions, and self-criticism, often leading to philanthropy, which stops the character from ending romantically. Other characteristics of the Romantic hero include introspection, the triumph of the individual over the "restraints of theological and social conventions", wanderlust, melancholy, misanthropy, alienation, and isolation. Literary critic Northrop Frye noted that the Romantic hero is often "placed outside the structure of civilization and therefore represents the force of physical nature, amoral or ruthless, yet with a sense of power, and often leadership, that society has impoverished itself by rejecting". The Romantic hero is often the protagonist in a literary work, and the primary focus is on the character's thoughts rather than their actions. ![]() The Romantic hero is a literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has themselves at the center of their own existence. Literary archetype referring to a character who rejects established norms ![]()
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