--------------A variation of the Romantic hero, the Byronic hero, aptly named after his creator, George Gordon Byron, is a character who displays antisocial qualities. A Byronic hero can be described as: arrogant, adaptable, cynical, disrespectful, emotionally conflicted, intelligent, mysterious, self-destructive, dominant, and exiled by society. To take an example of a Byronic hero, Byron himself describes Conrad, protagonist of The Corsair, as: He knew himself to be evil, but he did not consider the rest to be better than what it seemed to be; and despised the best by calling them hypocrites. which hid the deeds that the boldest mind clearly performed. He knew he was hated, but he knew that the hearts that hated him were crouched and feared too. Solitary, wild and strange, he also kept himself free from all affection and contempt. Byron I.XI) Outside of Byron's own works, there are only a handful of characters in literature who resemble a Byronic hero on the level of Adam, Victor Frankenstein's creation. Adam is vividly personified as a Byronic hero. So much so that during ...