In Byron's poem, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" the main character is portrayed as a dark brooding man, who doesn't like society and wants to escape from the world because of his discontent with it. Through the poem we see the strong resemblance the Byronic hero has to many of todays popular characters, such as Batman.         In the third stanza of the poem we learn that Childe Harold is the product of a long line of nobility. "…showed first 75 words of 964 total…

…showed last 75 words of 964 total…a woman that they lust for but can not have, a dark and secretive past, the love for art and beauty, and the decision to take on a different lifestyle in order to escape the society they dislike to much. These factors make the foundation of these two characters almost identical. There can be no doubt that the character that Byron created in "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" was directly linked to the forming of the character