Gothic Analogies In Wuthering Heights

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Similarly, it is made clear that in Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff’s personality is being forged following the same fashion. It is in this sense that Emily’s portrayal of Heathcliff is an imitation of Lord Byron’s account of his vampire-Manfred. Heathcliff comes to imitate Manfred when he is described, for example, in one instance of the Brontean text as “dark” as though he”came from the devil” (Emily Bronte: 36) (LISA revue).
It is in this respect that many Gothic analogies exist between Lord Byron’s “Manfred” and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. It is in this respect that Emily Bronte’s literary bent of mind is highly influenced by Byron’s writings.
Lord Byron’s “The Giaour” and Charlotte Bronte’s portrayal of Bertha in Jane Eyre
Many other analogies exist for fulfilling the task of giving a view of the Bronte sisters’ astute appropriation of Byron’s use of the Gothic in the literary creation .Such is the analogy existing between Lord Byron’s and Charlotte Bronte ‘s texts. Like Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte -the eldest of the three Bronte sisters- had also been exposed to Lord Byron’s poetry. In this very part of the paper, I would first place a special focus on Byron’s use of the Gothic in “The Giaour” (1813), which could have certainly affected Charlotte Bronte’s portrayal of Bertha in Jane Eyre. What are the Gothic elements that had been deployed by Byron in his literary production of “The Giaour”?
Byron’s “The Giaour“is remarkably acquainted with the Vampire theme. Following the Giaour’s murder of Hassan, the Ottoman narrator foreshadows how the Giaour, after his demise, is going to be transformed into a vampire and thus contaminate his surroundings by sucking their blood (“The Giaour”).
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In this section of the research work, I will rely on a very insightful biography entitled A Life of Anne Bronte by Edward Chitham to demonstrate the ongoing literary synergy between Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte. The question of this literary synergy between the three sisters is outstandingly raised by Edward Chitham in this book. He writes thus:”…what was the literary relation between Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Wildfell Hall?” (Chitham:7).
This question is at the hub of this research section. Chitham, in his biographical study, goes on to put under scrutiny the different ways in which Anne, Charlotte and Emily approached and assessed each other’s writings (Chitham:7).
In short, the biographer in his A Life of Anne Bronte makes a comment about the symbiosis characterizing the literary relation between the three Bronte sisters:

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