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My paper will be on Lord Byron's role in JS&MN: how he is represented, his relationship with Strange, and the clever footnote about Manfred. Problem is, I don't have a narrow thesis and could use some help from my eager and brilliant classmates. I plan to use the text of Manfred as a second source, so the paper might have two parts: Byron's role and the poem's correlation to the plot.