Outstanding figures in British literature
exemplify the type. The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi
autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Many of Byron's characters are a similar specific type of the Romantic hero:
An idealised but flawed character with great talent and passion, a distaste for society,
disrispect towards rank and privilege, arrogance, overconfidence, selfdistructiveness.
Is rebellious, exiled.
Charles Dickens
18121970
Works are very much influenced by his life
Dickens worked in a factory as a young child, using this experience in many of his
child characters ( Oliver Twist, Tiny Tim, David Copperfield)
His father was imprisoned because of debt and his family became very poor. Later on
Dickens became rich He wrote about greed and debt and about rags to riches (to rags)
He brings to light the political and economic oppression suffered by the poor, greatly
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