"Player"-Hamlet 4

The Romantic Movement expressed love and being a player in a different way than before. Lord Byron was a club-footed and effeminately handsome British aristocrat. The aristocratic mode of being is not really condusive to love... love defined as an extension of man's love for God. In some ways, this places women in the position of being God. As a point of fact, in many Romantic poems, women are portrayed as the "morally" better sex although reality is more complicated.

Through much of history, "falling in love" was pretty much defined as "loving" a person. I don't really think it is hard to make a person fall in love with you. Byron himself probably used his disabilty, his secret sin, and many other tropes of the trade to get a woman to fall in love with him. Men also use pity to try to get a woman to fall in love with them.

For Byron, the conquest of women is a game. For Hamlet, getting Ophelia to love him and to love his madness is intensely calculated, In one sense, it feeds his vanity. In another sense, it leads to her suicide. Frailty, thy name is woman, he says.

Byron's conquest of women is a "talent" of Byron. It undoubtedly leads to his debt problem. Byron is often gambling with himself and others. He may win socially, but that leaves him in a financial debt.