Lord Byron and the Byronic hero

The Romantic hero is often associated with traits of the sublime. He is a solitary individual, even a recluse, in his own person reflecting the dominant fictional archetypal character of the late-Enlightenment era, the orphan.

Byron adds a variation on this that is so singularly his own however that thereafter the figure is known as a 'Byronic hero'. It is the dark, brooding, passionate, calculating, cruel, ostracized figure who nonetheless draws the reader's sympathies because he ardently desires justice *against* the institutions and the laws of society. The Byronic hero is nothing like Rousseau's noble savage. He sees no solution to the world's ills in Wordsworth's natural supernaturalism. He rages against the machine, not only drawing the world's opprobrium but inviting it.

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