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973639 No.973639 [Reply] [Original]

I'd like to read a few good books with a so-called Byronic Hero as the main character, if possible.
Would /lit/ be kind enough to recommend me some stuff?
I'll include the wiki-list of traits of the byronic hero to make it a bit easier. Thanks in advance.
* a strong sense of arrogance
* high level of intelligence and perception
* cunning and able to adapt
* suffering from an unnamed crime
* a troubled past
* sophisticated and educated
* self-critical and introspective
* mysterious, magnetic and charismatic
* struggling with integrity
* power of seduction and sexual attraction
* social and sexual dominance
* emotional conflicts, bipolar tendencies, or moodiness
* a distaste for social institutions and norms
* being an exile, an outcast, or an outlaw
* "dark" attributes not normally associated with a hero
* disrespect of rank and privilege
* jaded, world-weary
* cynicism
* self-destructive behaviour

>> No.973647

>>973639
I'd suggest "Paradise Lost," for Satan, "Othello" for Iago, "Hamlet" for (get ready for it) Hamlet, and "The Brother's Karamazov" for Ivan.

>> No.973796

>>973647
Wow, I didn't know that Hamlet was a Byronic hero.
I'll start with that one, I guess. As soon as I find a decent Shakespeare-collection.

>> No.973803
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973803

4967

>> No.973801

>>973796
I would say Ivan in Karamazov is a better Byronic hero than Hamlet. Hamlet was a bit too weenie to get into the club.

>> No.973839

Are there any more badass hero-types?

>> No.973851

Stephen Dedalus from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.973857
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973857

Start with tactics, not openings, brah.

>> No.973871
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973871

IT'S AIMED FOR 14 YEAR OLDS. NTO THAT THAT'S NECESSARILY A BAD THING, JUST I COULDN'T FIND THE CHARACTERS BELIEVABLE, ESPECIALLY THE PROTAGONIST.

>> No.973881
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973881

I can read perfectly, I just have difficulties when it comes to mistakes in writting. thanks for the suggestion :)

>> No.973891
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973891

POOLS CLOSED

>> No.973892

It's not a good book, and I'm not recommending it, but Edward Cullen.

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973908

Read some Camus and lighten up. Do The Myth of Sisyphus and then The Stranger.

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973919

I can read perfectly, I just have difficulties when it comes to mistakes in writting. thanks for the suggestion :)

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973926

NO

>> No.973944
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973944

Not another word. You win you damn sex beast, keep reading good literature

>> No.973946
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973946

Cna we get some Dark Tower up in this bitch?

>> No.973948
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973948

Find the hardest science fiction you can. I recommend Greg Egan.

You have just read somethingt hat no woman ever will. No longer will you have any prbolems.

>> No.973952

>>973647 "Othello" for Iago

How exactly is Iago a Hero in that story? His excuse for sabotaging Othello's life isn't exactly a good one.

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973973

this is a corgi-jacking

>> No.973987
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973987

mastering your integrity by perez hilton

>> No.974023
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974023

Society would be a lot better off if the chaff was eliminated on a regular basis.

Unfortunately for the OP he would probably be in the same wave as his minority friend.

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974026

You couldn't be more wrong :)

Well, you could, but you're still very wrong.

>> No.974029

>>973639
Would Holmes fall under this category?

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974034

I POSTED THAT BY THE WAY.

>> No.974055
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974055

it's not my fault guys

>> No.974069
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974069

Where do you got o school/work?

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>> No.974095
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974095

>pretensious

>> No.974112
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974112

No, you're just as bad. Quit being a little bitch and NOT REPLY.

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974121

You should feel really, really bad for this post.

>> No.974142

The protagonist in "A Hero of Our Time" is Byronic, at least the foreword said so.

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974160

Sounds liek a Beatles song.

Snice, you know, that's where the title came from.

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974177

yse

>> No.974193
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974193

HER adult MOViE: http://zljo.com/-p-19

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974197

That first sentence is atrocious. Pehraps you should look into some writing classes. But then again, aw riter can't be taught to write; he ismply learns and soars, or doesn't learn and flutters back to flipping burgers.

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974210

It'so bvious your'e a troll because no one in new york would be caught dead in midtown.

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974216

Instead, let's integrate the words 'frustrated closet case' into the titles of great works of literature.

Of Mice And Frustrated Closet Cases
Frustrated Closet Case In The Rye
Les Frustrated Closet Cases
Frustrated Closet Case Of Green Gables
The Call Of The Frustrated Closet Case
A Frustrated Closet Case In King Arthur's Court

Go, go, go!

>> No.974222

i wrote a character almost exactly like this without ever hearing the term

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>> No.974225

Steppenwolf, which fits but is kind of different considering its ending

>> No.974260

>>974142
I'll look into it.
God, this wave of spam is awful.

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974275

> How exactly does something like that happen?

you have to be a prick first

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974286

Good.

You're not allowed to enjoy yourself unless you're willing to put some work in to your own development as a human being.

The picture of the girl I got from a thread on anonib.

>> No.974287
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974287

Montpellier is a trashacn, and in Paris, everyoneh ates you