![]() Although he begins the first canto as a proto-Byronic hero, complete with regret for some mysterious past folly and an exile to the European continent due to his errors, Harold often vanishes entirely from the narrative to be replaced by Byron's own narrative commentary on the situations described. Harold is mostly a figure devised to establish point of view for the reader. ![]() By the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgirmage, Byron had given up claiming that Harold was merely an artistic device and admitted Harold's autobiographical connection. ![]() Although Byron insisted that Harold was not a stand-in for himself, Harold's "pilgrimage" parallels Byron's own journeys through western Europe. Childe HaroldĪ young nobleman (as indicated by the title "Childe") coming of age to receive his due honors in British society. ![]() Byron memorializes him and his sacrifice in "The Prisoner of Chillon," which describes his imprisonment in the Chateau de Chillon and his eventual-but much delayed-release. A sixteenth-century patriot imprisoned for his defense of the freedom of Geneva. ![]()
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