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George Gordon Byron 1200px-George_Gordon_Byron,_6th_Baron_Byron_by_Richard…

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        • He is characterized by proud individualism and rejects the conventional moral rules of society.
        
        • Byron firmly believed in individual liberty;
        • He hated any sort of constraint;
        • He denounced the evils of society by using satire.
        
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        • The influence of neoclassical poetry can be traced in the satirical aim of most of his poetry.
    - - Then he moved to Venice, where he produced the tragedy Manfred and began his masterpiece Don Juan.
        
        Manfred
        It is a dramatic play. Manfred's character is a magician who lives in the Alps, tormented by an unknown fault. He uses his powers to summon spirits and commands them to make him forget his unnamed sin. Unable to forget, Manfred struggles to find peace. This leads to the fragmentation of his personality and to the loss of identity, looking for a final solution in suicide.
        
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        • He is of noble birth, but wild and rough in his manners;
        • He is a moody, mysterious romantic rebel, an outsider and attractive;
        • He hides some sin or secret in his past;
        • Women cannot resist him, but he refuses their love.
        
        He participated in the Greek independence struggle from Turkey.
        
        He died in Missolonghi in 1824.
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        • The wildest and most exotic natural landscapes reflect the poet’s mood and feelings.