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Byronic Heroes - Coggle Diagram
Byronic Heroes
Examples
Lord Ruthven
The Vampyre - John William
Claude Frollo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Frankenstein and the Monster
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Rochester
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Heathcliff
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Daphne du Maurier
English novelist and biographer
Born May 13th, 1907, in London, England
Died 19th April, 1989
Best known for writing "Rebecca" (1938)
Definition
A kind of hero found in several of the works of Lord Byron.
A Byronic hero is a melancholy and rebellious young man.
Usually distressed by a terrible wrong he committed in the past.
Rebecca
The Byronic hero in Rebecca is Maxim de Winter
Rarely understood
Seems quite dark and mysterious
Can be rebellious at times.
Charaters
The narrator
Maxim de Winter
Rebecca de Winter
Never appears
Keeps influence over other characters
Mrs. Danvers
Sinister housekeeper for the de Winter's
Jack Favell
Rebecca's cousin and lover.
Frank Crawley
Beatrice Lacy
Maxim's sister