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    This document discusses characteristics of romantic heroes in literature. Common traits of romantic heroes include being melancholy, contemplative, tortured, and isolated. The document then analyzes romantic heroes in specific works like Romeo and Juliet, Don Juan, Jane Eyre, and Twilight. It explores themes like forbidden love, how the heroes defy social conventions for love, and how overcoming societal conflicts makes the love stories less interesting for audiences.

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    This document discusses characteristics of romantic heroes in literature. Common traits of romantic heroes include being melancholy, contemplative, tortured, and isolated. The document then analyzes romantic heroes in specific works like Romeo and Juliet, Don Juan, Jane Eyre, and Twilight. It explores themes like forbidden love, how the heroes defy social conventions for love, and how overcoming societal conflicts makes the love stories less interesting for audiences.

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    By Sebastian Bell

    A romantic hero is the protagonist of a literary work

    that is either in love or discovering love throughout the course of the work. Characteristics that are common within a romantic hero include:
    Melancholy Contemplative Tortured Isolated Prone to grand or obscene gestures of devotion.

    Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)

    Don Juan (Lord Byron)


    Jane Eyre (Bronte) Twilight (Meyers)

    Act 2 (the chase)

    O! Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That

    monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable all young men are fickle in love. Romeo abandoning his love for Rosaline because it hurts him and gives nothing back (dramatic irony at its best) Paris who tries to win Juliet the conventional way is never seen as a true rival for her affections.

    "Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not At First Sight. -

    Christopher Marlowe (Shakespearian contemporary) Cedric Watts Harvester New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare. Peter Holding Romeo and Juliet (Text and performance) John Mahoney and Stewart Martin Letts explore Romeo and Juliet

    Cantos 1,2 and 4 are perhaps the most interesting, they

    feature a young Don Juan untutored in love discovering his way. Donna Julia Haidee Who chose to go where'er he had a mind, And never dream'd his lady was concern'd About Don Jose, Juans father and a prophecy of what the boy will become.

    Anne Crow Cynic or Romantic

    Stephen Bygrave Reading Byron


    James Wilson - Tirso, Molire, and Byron: The

    Emergence of Don Juan as Romantic Hero Donald low Byron selected poetry and Prose

    Edward Rochester passionate but morally bankrupt

    John Rivers moral but passionless


    though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have

    something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him. this is not love at first sight or even love at sight at all. This is physical, carnal, love and its modality is action and touch, smell, taste, more than the distant sense of sight and hearing.

    Penny Vincenzi - Romantic heroes: here's to you, Mr

    Rochester most connected with the grosser and more animal portion of our nature; and that the detestable morality of the most prominent character in the story is accompanied with every sort of palliation short of unblushing justification - Rambler (1848). Sandra Gilbert - The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.

    Edward Cullen

    And so the lion fell in love with the lambWhat a


    sick, masochistic lion. Different species yet drawn together. Lust or love for Bella. She seems to be in love without ever speaking to Edward. Keeps describing him as beautiful. Edward becomes moody and distant on falling in love, confused. Runs away at first. Midnight sun.

    Love
    Romeo Edward Cullen Don Juan for Haidee Jane Eyre

    Lust
    Romeo Bella Edward (Thirst)

    For every character love is always forbidden in these

    different works. What divides can be a number of things; family, class, species or in Don Juans case other men have first claim. There is always a character set aside who would be more suitable, if the hero was not so keen to follow there heart into misery. This fight against public censor seems to be part of the appeal for the lovers, either subconsciously or knowingly. Tamara Coble - Literary themes: Forbidden love in classical literature

    That the Romantic hero has not changed all that much over the last 500 hundred years. That society wants the search for love to be a struggle. When the conflict that the lovers must endure is overcome, the love affair is no longer relevant to the audience and the work always ends soon after. We, the audience, want the hero to fly in the face of social convention to woo there partner. Love matures all of the romantic heroes.

    (Do you have any questions in French, the language of romance)

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