1. Manfred
He is alone in his suffering and cannot rely on other people or human culture to help him deal with what grieves him - the memory of his passed half sister, Astarte, whom he loves:.
"Astarte! my beloved! speak to me:/ I have so much endured, so much endure "/ Look on me! the grave hath not changed thee more/ Than I am changed for thee. Thou lovedst me/ Too much, as I loved thee: we were not made/ To torture thus each other, though it were the deadliest sin to love as we have loved./ Say that thou loath'st me not "that I do bear/ This punishment for both "that thou wilt be/ One of the blessed "and that I shall die- (II. 3. 118-126). .
His incest with his half sister is very against the norms of society, and lead to her bloodshed and death. His extreme love for her eventually lead to his coming death as well. "As my first glance/ Of love and wonder was for thee, then take/ My latest look: thou wilt not beam on one/ To whom the gifts of life and warmth have been/ Of a more fatal nature. He is gone;/ I follow- (III. 2. 25-30). After this quote, just two small scenes later to be the death of Manfred in the interior of the tower. Manfred lives in solitude, in his own isolated castle in the Alps with a few servants. The whole society in the nearby town knows of his living there, and frowns upon him and his solitude. "I know that with mankind,/ Thy fellows in creation, thou dost rearely/ Exchange thy thoughts, and that thy solitude/ Is as an anchorite's, were it but holy- (III. 1. 39-42). .
Manfred is indeed self-reliant. He says what he feels, and is not affected or intimidated by anyone, even the immortal spirits, destinies, and Gods when doing so. When he raises the seven spirits, they cannot comply with his wish for forgetfulness. They are to be his slaves because he has summoned them. He is infuriated when they do not grant his wish and yells at them without intimidation, even if they are immortals and have powers which call death upon him.
Manfred was Byron's first dramatic work. ... Manfred exhibits classic Byronic hero characteristics: he suffers from great passion, is not very impressionable, has committed a crime he cannot forget and is self-destructive. ... It can be deduced from this statement that Manfred is a self-sufficient man. ... He walks the fine edge of self-destructive behavior. ... The only Byronic characteristic he lacks is the self-destructive behavior. ...
Manfred was born on September 8, 1922 in Berlin. ... In Manfred's journal, he wrote about Hitler, saying, "how could anyone bring us someone like this?" ... Gad and Manfred became members of the He-halutz youth group, a band of Jewish teens. ... In the Fall of 1942, Manfred's family "got their lists." ... Gad, disguised as a Hitler-lover, managed to sneak in to see Manfred. ...
Even Manfred is puzzled by that fact - actually he thinks he is seeing the ghost of Prince Alfonso. Those are some early signs that Manfred's bloodline might not be the true possessor of the castle. ... Although most of the peasants do not understand what that prophecy means, Manfred does, perfectly. ... Conrad and Matilda were the only children that Manfred had and now when Conrad is dead he does not see any comfort of having a daughter - she cannot be the prince of the castle and Manfred desperately needs an heir. ... The next visit from the supernatural world appearing to Manfred is ...
Self-Reliance, standing up for your beliefs and to be willing to fight for what you believe in. Ralph Waldo Emerson's main idea in "Self-Reliance" is to show the importance of depending and relying on yourself. Emerson's essay self reliance is something we should follow our lives by. ... Emerson, when he speaks about self reliance, he means that if we want to make it, and if we want to succeed, it must come from inside of us. ... For Emerson, self reliance was more than the image of a family living out a life on the frontier. ...
After reading Emerson's "Self Reliance" I have discovered that self-reliance is the most significant aspect in my life. ... For one to accomplish their goals and meet their destiny, they must choose self-reliance as the answer. Self-reliance lets one know that it is essential to realize that all choices in life come down to what they think; "nothing can bring you peace but yourself." ... "Self-Reliance" is an essay that I will keep in mind forever. ... "Self-Reliance" is the key to make great people achieve their goals and to become individuals....
Virtue, what is virtue? ... Virtue is what leads our actions to be good. ... Throughout their investigation they challenge many things to see if they are virtue or a part of virtue. ... Virtue is the primary factor in achieving the perfect good. ... Reaching these virtues will bring man closer to the perfect good. ...
In my opinion, this trope exponds emerson's pointview of self-reliance perfectly. ... yes, in self-reliance or self-trust, most of us even worse than the infants. In ermerson's self-reliance,he talked lot about self-trust or self-convinced, he appealed to the earthlings that they should pay much more attention to theirselves and dropped all the consistency and conformity. ... The self-reliant individual should be able to live in the world and improve it, not be just another product of it. Therefore, in my eyes, though emerson wrote the essay nearly 2 hundreds years before, but...