Ben to Batmanor

Franklin to Fight Club

The antihero as seen in the Count of Monte Cristo

The Romantic Movement

Philosophy Rejected order, calm, & rationalism

Ben Franklin and the Age of Reason were wrong

Favored change, chaos, & emotion Inspired by and afraid of French

Rev.

The Romantic Movement

Art Simplicity in tune with nature

Rustic: farmers, sailors, soldiers Neo-medieval & Religious Occult & supernatural themes

The Third of May 1808 is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish master Francisco Goya,

now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. In the work, Goya sought to

commemorate Spanish resistance to

Napoleon's armies during the occupation of

1808.

The Entry of the Crusaders in

Constantinople, 1840, the Louvre

by Eugène Delacroi

The Forge by Goya

Saturn Devouring His Son is the name given to a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It depicts the Greek myth of Cronus (in the title

Romanised to Saturn), who, fearing that his children

would supplant him, ate each one upon their birth.

It is one of the series of Black Paintings that Goya painted directly onto the walls of his house sometime between

1819 and 1823.

The Romantic Movement

Literature Hawthorne's The Birthmark

Anti Enlightenment, pro nature Aminidab as rustic “natural man”

Shelley's Frankenstein Science gone wrong Man can not overcome all with

progress

The Byronic Hero

Lord Byron, poet who created the anti-hero later called the Byronic hero

Not virtuous An exile with a dark

past Intelligent & brooding Excessively passionate Hidden identities

The Byronic Hero

Batman Dark past Blurs line between

good & evil Intelligent, dark,

loner Bruce Wayne /

Batman

The Byronic Hero

Tyler Durden from Fight Club

Very dark Dual identity Both good and

bad Confused past

Count of Monte Cristo How does Dantes / Count fit the Byronic mold?

How does the novel fit Romanticism?