What are the characteristics of a romanic hero?

Question

I'm writing an essay on how the character Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 is a romantic hero, but I seem to have lost my sheet that states the major characteristics of a romantic hero, and they essay is due tomorrow. If I don't write this essay tonight, I fail my junior english class. So, if anyone knows the chracteristics of a romantic hero, and possibly how they relate to Montag in Fahrenheit 451, you could very possibly save my grade.

Please && thanks so much in advance.

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I lied. Needs to be the dark romantic hero. I'm not really sure what the difference is... but... yeah... thanks guys.

Answer 1

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Here are the characteristics of the romantic hero.

Birth and class are unimportant: the individual transcends society

The battle is internal: it is a psychological war won by the “courage to be me”.

Moral codes are eccentric–heroes make their own rules

Passions are outside of individual control

Self knowledge is valued more than physical strength or endurance (physical courage is de-valued)

The hero is moody, isolated, and introspective

Loyalty is to a particular project and to a community of like-minded others

This romanticism is a lead in to today’s conception of the heroic which may best be characterize by the idea of the anti-hero. The world, which even in the recently passed romantic age was knowable and whose ills could be repaired by men of knowledge and courage, is no longer a familiar place. The world is hostile, unsafe, and if not deliberately cruel and unjust, is at least discovered to be without meaning, cold, uncaring, and joyless.

Hope this is what you need. I can't compare it to Guy Montag for you, but maybe a few things will pop for you.

Good luck!

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