I’d like to know more about people’s response to Manfred and the Byronic Hero. A

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I’d like to know more about people’s response to Manfred and the Byronic Hero. At bottom, I would argue that the quarrel between Coleridge (in theStatesman’s Manuel) and Byron is about the extent to which the community can or should place a check upon the morally free individual. Even if we bemoan Manfred’s isolation, can an alternative be anything other than a coercive imposition or a self-willed illusion? I’d also like to know what people make of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound. Is the character Jupiter an unjustifiably harsh symbol of external authority? Is Shelley’s treatment of the romantic problem of selfhood a solution or an evasion

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Ans...First we have to know about peoples response to Manfred and the Byronic Hero, Most literary scholars and historians consider the first literary Byronic hero to be Byron's Childe Harold.There are many similarities between the protagonist in Byron's work and the Byronic Hero.

The most dominant one is that Manfred like the Byronic Hero is someone cast apart from society, many literary scholars and historians also point to Lord Byron himself as the first truly Byronic hero,The Byronic Hero is one who is distinct from the social order.He is solitary and one in whom others stand in awe.Manfred is certainly this.

We also tried to make a comparison between Shelley’s poem and the ancient myth about Prometheus.Lord Byron developed the archetype of the Byronic hero in response to his boredom with traditional and Romantic heroic literary characters.Byronic heroes usually have a greater degree of psychological and emotional complexity than traditional Romantic heroes.

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