... is their brother Branwell by showing common Byronic characteristics shared by both fictional characters and Branwell using psychoanalytic and postcolonial lenses. The three Byronic characteristics that Branwell, Rochester and Heathcliff share are their want for a woman they can't have, their proneness to being moody and their dark secrets that have occurred because of their isolated travels. In order ... an even darker quality. Along with this sometimes-violent moodiness, a dark physical representation of both characters classifies as characteristically Byronic. This can be found in both...

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