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  • Essay / Gothic Analogies in Wuthering Heights - 683

    Likewise, it is clear that in Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff's personality is formed in the same way. It is in this sense that Emily's representation 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 a passage of the Brontëan text as "dark" as if he "came from the devil" (Emily Bronte: 36) (LISA review). It is in this respect that many Gothic analogies exist between Lord Byron's "Manfred" and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. It is in this respect that Emily Brontë's literary mind is strongly influenced by the writings of Byron. Lord Byron's 'The Giaour' and Charlotte Brontë's portrayal of Bertha in Jane Eyre Many other analogies exist to fulfill the task of providing a view of the Brontë sisters' story. clever appropriation of Byron's use of Gothic in literary creation. This is the analogy existing between the texts of Lord Byron and Charlotte Brontë. Like Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, was also exposed to the poetry of Lord Byron. In this very part of the article, I would first like to pay particular attention to Byron's use of the Gothic in "The Giaour" (1813), which certainly could have affected Charlotte Brontë's portrayal of Bertha in Jane Eyre . What are the Gothic elements deployed by Byron in his literary production of “Giaour”? Byron's "Giaour" is remarkably familiar with the theme of vampires. Following the murder of Hassan by the Giaour, the Ottoman narrator foreshadows how the Giaour, after his disappearance, will transform into a vampire and thus contaminate his environment by sucking his blood ("The Giaour"). Likewise, and as Clift reveals...... middle of article ......ldfell Hall In this section of the research work I will draw on a very insightful biography entitled A Life of Anne Bronte d 'Edward Chitham to demonstrate the ongoing literary synergy between Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë. The question of this literary synergy between the three sisters is remarkably posed by Edward Chitham in this work. He writes: “…what was the literary relationship between Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Wildfell Hall? » (Chitham: 7). This question is at the heart of this research section. Chitham, in his biographical study, then examines the different ways in which Anne, Charlotte, and Emily approached and evaluated each other's writings (Chitham: 7). In short, the biographer in her life of Anne Brontë comments on the symbiosis that characterizes the literary relationship between the three Brontë sisters: