A character of this type wants to throw "soul, heart, mind, passions, feeling strong or weak... into one word, and that one word were lightning."
Peter Thorslev wrote a landmark 1962 study examining the "types and prototypes" of this kind of character. A character of this type wants to throw "soul, heart, mind, passions, feeling strong or weak... into one word, and that one word were lightning." A character of this type directs his dying words in a foreign language that can only be understood by his page, the cross-dressing Kaled, who herself is a possible female example of this type of character, named Gulnare. A character of this type accepts a cup of wine from Chamois Hunter, but imagines that it has the blood of his deceased lover (*) Astarte on its brim. The title character from Lara, Conrad from The Corsair and the title character from Manfred exemplify this archetype, whose first example was a character who witnesses the Battle of Waterloo during a grand tour of Europe taken to escape boredom. For 10 points, name this archetype exemplified by Childe Harold, a vivacious, moody, and brooding adventurer modeled after a namesake Romantic poet.
Peter Thorslev wrote a landmark 1962 study examining the "types and prototypes" of this kind of character.
Byronic hero [prompt on partial answer; prompt on Romantic hero; prompt on Childes; prompt on young noblemen; prompt on pirate; prompt on corsair before mentioned]