Fit retribution! Gaul may champ the bit
And foam in fetters; -- but is Earth more free?
Did nations combat to make One submit;
Or league to teach all kings true sovereignty?
In the middle part of the poem, Byron's nobility was shown as he gives respect and credit to people who did honorable deeds, saying that But these are deeds which should not ass away,
And names that must not wither, though the earth
Forgets her empires with a just decay,
The enslavers and the enslaved, their death and birth;
Moreoever, despite of all the loneliness and pain that the narrator had experienced, from his youth up to his old age, as well as those that he witnessed in others' lives, he demonstrated in the near end...
He kills his father as he flees his home and marries his mother after solving the riddle of the Sphinx. His end is inevitable, but Sophocles clearly shows the role negative character traits play in Oedipus' tragedy, while Hamlet's supposedly negative traits of doubt are not necessarily evil. Thus Hamlet could be classified as a kind of nascent anti-hero, a man who mourns "the time is out of joint/oh cursed
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