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Thank you We sneak Weathering heights the byronic hero allah

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shmoop first let's just define it Byronic hero the word

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byronic comes from a person lord byron who kind of

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himself exemplifies being a byronic hero And he also wrote

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the first byronic hero it's basically a hero just kind

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of dark It has a lot of inner turmoil isn't

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our you know cheery loving protagonist that we usually think

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of as the hero of a story he's he's the

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dark here fonzie she's fonzie or satan on and that's

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actually what he's based on originally is milton satan in

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paradise lost He was like a protagonist of sorts but

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he's saying so clearly he's not you know the normal

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hero we think of sometimes byronic hero is called satanic

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here over the reason the heathcliff went from this like

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innocent young orphan too and evil vindictive guy so we

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normally wouldn't say like oh yeah he's the hero But

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he is he's the hero of this story he's but

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he's the byronic hero she's a tortured soul who's obsessed

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with the past and like can't get what he wants

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But it still has that like love and desire inside

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of it and that's really What What The byronic hero

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is it's based in this romantic notion of doing your

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own thing So that's what keith cliff is doing he's

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different than everyone else He's a true romantic hero So

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when i think of other more modern byronic heroes where

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should my my head edward cullen from twilight Anyone who's

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like really brooding The byronic hero actually is a lot

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more common now because like when you think of you

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know characters that like we're attracted to now it's all

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these like dark brooding and that is the byronic hero

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back then brooding wasn't the protagonist Now brooding is always

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the while i think of holden caulfield kind of a

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seminal similar thing is that he is definitely that byronic

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hero worth not someone you would normally be like Oh

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yeah awesome We're rooting for him but he's like that

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dark you know obsessed soul So is hamlet by hero

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I know it's a city that's maybe a proto byronic

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hero That's a little bit more rooted in the idea

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of having a tragic flaw and kind of falling from

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grace Where as you know this is more of just

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like a character who is like deeply dark and doing

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something different as opposed to just like is in one

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place and then has a tragic flaw That makes him

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paul But it is There are characteristics of ironic hero

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and hamlet for sure What is a byronic hero who

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are some modern day byronic heroes Batman But only the 00:02:55.694 --> [endTime] one played by christian bale

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