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Harold character sketch in the story a holiday

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Childe Harold

The principal character in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is Childe Harold, the narrator and author surrogate (that is, a fictional character based on the author). Childe Harold is the seminal Byronic hero, a form of Romantic hero that is an elevated, moody type of anti-hero.

Childe Harold is a young man who grows weary of his life of wealth and luxury, so he embarks on a solitary journey through Europe to seek adventure and awaken emotions that have gone dormant from years of disillusionment. Though he does find adventure and meet new people everywhere he goes, he remains melancholy. The journey does not solve his struggles of temperament.

It is dark, brooding character traits that tend to define the Byronic hero. Byronic heroes are typically some combination of moody, cynical, cunning, clever, perceptive, mysterious, charismatic, and arrogant. Byronic heroes are often outsiders living on the fringe of their social or environmental surroundings. They are also generally disillusioned with the trappings of society. Byron himself was famously said to be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" by Lady Caroline Lamb, one of Byron's many romantic conquests.

Cantos 1 and 2 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage were written in close succession, but cantos 3 and 4 came later. Between cantos 2 and 3, Lord Byron ceased trying to put distance between the character of Childe Harold and himself.

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