Cain. Manfred

High-born count—and an ascetic black-mage; a powerful lord—and a ruler of spirits endowed with mysterious knowledge: this is Manfred. The lonely hero of Byron’s romantic philosophical drama, consumed by unyielding pride, feels within himself “a Promethean spark” and will not “buy” mental peace. “Is it not strange that I still have Man’s semblance and form, And that I live? But grief is the teacher of the wise; grief is knowledge, and he who is richer in it Must have learned in sufferings that the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” Byron J. “Manfred” (translation by I. A. Bunin).