Byron is situated between Milton, whose suffering Satan retained
more than a hint of nobility even though God's ways were supposedly
justified, and Nietzsche's ubermench who in suffering the laughter
of rejection and the pain of alienated righteousness, destroys the
old gods and brings in the new. Byron's duality is couched within a
will to do and the weakness to do not - always with the hanging
question, does either path really matter? This conflict keeps
Byron's humanity locked, like Pascal's paradoxical pronouncement,
in "a mid-point between nothing and everything." Pope could assert
in the 18th century that "Man was created half to rise and half to
fall," while Byron had to struggle with if humanity was created at
all, and by whom, and for what purpose? The most distilled
revelation of this conflicted search for meaning within, and
behind, the human condition comes in Byron's confessional narrative
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1819). In this aspiring epic,
Byron presents the Visionary's "compulsive search for an ideal and
a perfection that do es] not exist in the world of reality...the
unquenchable thirst for ideality and the dissatisfaction with
reality."
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