Oct. 20th, 2005

winter: (unrepentant: reign in hell > serve in he)
There is much to be said about the Byronic hero, and of course such a character can be infuriating, self-pitying, misguided and generally deserving to be kicked off a cliff. But on the other hand, woobie.

The case in question: Byron's Manfred. (Public domain, online thanks to Bartleby.com)

I doubt it would have much success on stage, since it mostly consists of Manfred's monologues on how much he does not deserve to live his wretched life, but damn. Master brooding. Respect.

(Mmm. I wonder if in Byron's time his legion of fangirls ever dared to, say, slash Manfred with whoever, or write a Mary Sue who arrives in the castle and makes him forget all about Astarte... What am I saying? Of course they did.)

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