Model of a romantic hero in selected works by Juliusz Słowacki (Arab, Balladyna, Lambro, Mazepa)

Abstract

The article is devoted to an analysis of the attributes of a typical romantic hero. On the basis of several texts of one of the most important Polish representatives of Romanticism, Juliusz Słowacki, (Arab, Lambro, Mazepa, Balladyna) an attempt to crystallize the common features that characterize romantic hero has been made. The main genre that occurs in the article is a poetic novel. The author focused on presenting various particular protagonists created by Juliusz Słowacki, so as to then point the attributes common to most of them. This made it possible to determine the model of the romantic hero, which is a prime example of the hero of the Romantic era. It indicated both the main features of common and minor similarities, which together make up the characteristic trait of the protagonists in the works of literature in the Romantic era. The difficulty that may result from trying to extract similarities and to create a single model from many profiles, which by definition are multifaceted examples of individualism, has been highlighted. The impact of Romanticism on the current culture was also emphasized.