Gothic Fiction Byronic Hero

Read: Watership Down

• He stalks victims.• Inside, he is a vicious wolf.• Comes into woman’s bedroom when asleep.• Preys on young virgin women.• Victims are often asleep.• Travels at night, often alone.

Love vs. LustSex vs. RapeLove vs. Luv

Attention vs. StalkingEmotion vs. Drama

Thing Within

Thing Without

Thing with No Name

Gothic Fictionor

Gothic Horror

A combination of horror and romance

• Terror (both psychological and physical)• Mystery• The supernatural• Ghosts• haunted houses and Gothic architecture• Castles• Darkness• Death• Decay• Doubles• Madness• Secrets• hereditary curses.

• Tyrants• Villains• Bandits• Maniacs• Byronic heroes• Persecuted maidens• Femmes fatales• Madwomen• Magicians• Vampires• Werewolves• Monsters• Demons• Revenants• Ghosts• Perambulating skeletons• The Wandering Jew• The Devil himself.

Byronic Hero

George Gordon Byron,a.k.a. Noel, 6th Baron Byrona.k.a. Lord Byron

22 January 1788–19 April 1824

She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that 's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!

Byronic Hero

• The Byronic hero is an idealized but flawed character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron.

• Characterized by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as being "mad, bad and dangerous to know".

• high level of intelligence and perception

Dr. Gregory House: House M.D.

• cunning and able to adapt

Mr. Kurtz: Heart of Darkness

• sophisticated and educated

Victor Frankenstein: Frankenstein

• self-critical and introspective

Hamlet: Hamlet

• mysterious, magnetic and charismatic

Aragorn: Lord of the Rights

• struggling with integrity

Francis Macomber: Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

• power of seduction and sexual attraction

Don Juan: Don Juan

• social and sexual dominance

James Bond: Ian Fleming’s James Bond

• emotional conflicts, bipolar tendencies, or moodiness

Batman: The Dark Knight

• a distaste for social institutions and norms

James Stark: Rebel Without a Cause

• being an exile, an outcast, or an outlaw

Johnny: The Wild One

• "dark" attributes not normally associated with a hero

Sawyer: Lost

• disrespect of rank and privilege

Mr. Darcy: Pride and Prejudice

• a troubled past

Jean Valjean: Les Misreables

• cynicism

Sydney Carton: Tale of Two Cities

• arrogance

Raskolnikov: Crime and Punishment

• self-destructive behavior

Heathcliff: Wuthering Heights

Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte

Wuthering Heights in a Nutshell1970 Trailer

Mr. Earnshaw

Catherine Hindley Heathcliff

Edgar Linton Catherine Hindley Heathcliff

Edgar Linton Catherine Hindley

Hareton

Heathcliff Isabella

Edgar Linton Catherine

Cathy

Heathcliff

Hareton

Isabella

Linton

Edgar Linton

Cathy

Heathcliff

Hareton Linton

Edgar Linton

Cathy

Heathcliff

Linton

Heathcliff

Hareton Cathy

Edgar Linton Catherine Heathcliff

Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte

Wuthering Heights in a Nutshell1992 Trailer