Byron's poem, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"

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…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