The aim of the article is to look at the disturbing aspects of visuality in Juliusz Słowacki’s Lambro and Kordian. The paper proposes inquiry into the role of seeing and being seen in the Romantic characters marked by the ideological concerns of Słowacki’s time. It leads to the question of the ambitions of the Romantic visual subject. For both Lambro and Kordian, the eye – one’s own as well as another’s – becomes a source of anxiety, and the protagonists’ aspirations to control their own vision and the gazes of others are consistently challenged in both works.
