Song of Choice:"I feel so" by Boxcar Racer
Topic: Stubleing and Perfect Men
Have you ever run a search and got mostly blogs? Well it happens to me a lot and I found this intersting one and you oughta take a glance here to see.
Now on the Perfect Guy thing here's what the flaw is...as quoted from my enlish text book
"An Irresisable Bad Boy: The Byronic Her"
'Mad, Badm and Dangerous to know'---Lady Caroline Lamb, speakin of Gerge Gordon, Lord Byron
'A man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his hear, a scorener, of his kind, impalacable in revenge, yet cabale of deep and strong affection'
This model of reckless, wounded, manhood described by Thomas Babington Macauulay (1800-1859) became known as teh Byronic Hero. Both in life and in his poetry, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) gave his name to a type of hero who was devestatingly attractive yet fatally flawed.
Byron's personal charms and poetic talents offset a physical disablitly (a clubfoot) which embarassed him terribly and the complicated romantic entanglements that made him a social outcast. His heros, whom he often invited his reader to identify with himself, were also passionate yet flawed individualists: intellectually searching, incapable of compromise, forever broading over some mysterious past sin, painfully yet defiantly alone.
Heros for an unheroic age
The immesne popularity of the Byronic hero and the Romanticage celebration of his prototypes- Cain, Faust, Prometheus, and Napolean--wan't hard to understand. these were rash rebel, hailed or ressuredted in reaction to a neoclassical world in which order and restraint ruled the day. Most of these daring figures, whose ambitions were dommed from the start, also embodied the deep pessimism of early nineteenth century life. The failure of the French revolution had dampened idealism throughout Europe. And the labyrinthine restriction of state, church, and society allowed no suitable outlet for the outsized energy of creative young men like Byron and his fictional heros.
The American Heirs
The model of a sensitive rebel continues to be an engaging one for popular herod of the recent time: In post World War II America for example, as society had settled into a bland conformity, severla searching sensitive malcontents arrested the attention of movie goers everywhere.
One version of the Byronic Bad Boy was played by Marlon Brando, who popularized motocycles, leather jackets, and a sullen demeanor in his 1954 film The Wild One The leader of a motorcyle gang, Brando is asked. "What are you rebellin against?" hjis response, "What have you got?" The Actor JAmes Dean personified youthful rebellion in both his breif film carrer and his tragically shor life. In Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Dean's portrayl of Jim Stark,an alienated character searching for the meaning of manhood, made him a cult hero.
Like all Byronic heros, these moder, characters beckon us to explore personal freedoms and to reject confing conventions. Because thie freedom is achieved only by questionisn socal behavios, these heros are invariably lonely and misunderstood and because this freedom oftn compelst hem to perform dangerious acts, the lives of these heros can be much too short. Lord Byron dued of a fever at age 36 while fighting for Greek independence. James Dean died in an automobile accident at 24."
So there you have it...this is in many ways what I like in a man but you see the problem...then again I think in many ways I am like the female version off all that but oh well you know? Lol the "perfect guy" the one that self distructs....perhaps that's why I love Heero Yuy so much...Japanese equivelent you know....
For those of you wondering, I had another bad dream but you know what...fuck it! I am tired of this! This thing comes from my mom's side of the family but it usually only falls on the extremely religious ones--I AM NOT RELIGIOUS. I am such a freakin slacker I know next to nothing about my religion so why do I have it? I don't understand why I see death and destruction when I sleep. I don't know who sends these visions or why I don't get it! I just want to be left alone! I never claimed to be some damn 'prophet' or some Messiah! Why me? What am I suppose to do? I mean what can I do? I live in paranoia and what more? What actions can I take? Damn I don't understand....
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