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The main character in Byron's "Childe Harold" was based on _____.

a. William Wordsworth
b. Byron himself
c. Percy Shelley
d. John Milton

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The correct answer is "B".

In "Childe Harold", Lord Byron depicts the character as an individual with attitudes not proper for a knight despite his formalized attempt of becoming one. Although Byron implies that the story is based on true events, as many of the parts of the story make allusion to Byron's life, he stated that it was not meant to be an autobiographical novel, as he uses fictional characters with whom he disguises the events that happened in his life.

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The correct answer is B. Byron himself

Byron presented his early life in the story of Childe Harold in which he regretted his wasted youth and wished he could change things.
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