The main purpose of this article is to examine how Lara features Byron’s persistent concern with the unfathomable conflict between the main character’s defiant willpower and his helpless state of distress caused by irrevocable doom. The stereotypical criticisms of the author’s private life have led many reviewers (both Romantic and modern) to presume that the protagonist of the early tale is little more than a self-portrayal of the poet. I would contend that the critics’ deep religious and moral preconceptions of the writer have obstructed their awareness of the poetic objectivity which Byron puts forth into his deployment of recurrent motifs in his works. This article scrutinizes how Byron propounds the reiterative thematic concern with the irresolvable dilemma between man’s resistance of will and its adverse fortunes through thoughts and actions put forward by the protagonist. (Changwon National University)