1. Ben to Batman or Franklin to Fight Club The antihero as seen in the Count of Monte Cristo

2. 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.

3. The Romantic Movement Art  Simplicity in tune with nature Rustic: farmers, sailors, soldiers  Neo-medieval & Religious  Occult & supernatural themes

4. 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.

5. The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople, 1840, the Louvre by Eugène Delacroi

6. The Forge by Goya

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. The Byronic Hero Batman  Dark past  Blurs line between good & evil  Intelligent, dark, loner  Bruce Wayne / Batman

11. The Byronic Hero Tyler Durden from Fight Club  Very dark  Dual identity  Both good and bad  Confused past

12. Count of Monte Cristo How does Dantes / Count fit the Byronic mold? How does the novel fit Romanticism?