Romantic hero
Romantic hero has either rejected society or been rejected, and therefore is no longer constrained by society’s rules.
Romantic heroes tend to be self-centered and arrogant, but are capable of compassion and even self-sacrifice in some cases.
Byronic hero: subset of romantic hero, named for the poet Byron, who was described as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”.
Example of byronic hero: Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Faust in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust.
Faust embodies most Romantic ideals: **love of nature, emotional insights, individuality, and a never ending search for knowledge and higher truth.**
Mikhail Lermontov’s poetry includes Byronic heroes and other outcasts from society, which also describes Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1832).