... Victorian poets, artists, and novelists used Byronic figures and attitudes in their works. These hero •figures are more a hero unto themselves than others. Charlotte Bronte's character, Mr. Rochester, and her sister Emily's Heathcliff assume strong influences of Byronic heroes. Most of the traits associated with this fictional type come from Byron's works, although his own life fits the description to ... . And he exerts an attraction on other characters that is more compelling because it involves their terror at his obliviousness to ordinary human concerns and values. •Norton, 522)....

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... differences which shed light on the dark identities of these two, timeless characters. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte builds Heathcliff's Byronic character by describing the appearance and movement of his eyes. In the first paragraph of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood describes Heathcliff's eyes as, "black,"" and "withdrawn suspiciously under their brows- (Bronte 3). Early on in the novel, this ... employs similar physical descriptions to construct the Byronic identity of Rochester. However, where Emily Bronte uses vivid descriptions of eyes to convey the inward workings of Heathcliff (w...

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... that her book would be one of the most classical in all of literature. The sisters wrote completely different tales but similarities can be found in the writing as well. Character development and attitudes towards institutions in the novels had commonalties among the authors. There are contrasting styles to their writing as well, Charlotte's Jane Eyre is more romantic in tone ... , in the end no one gains anything from the institution, marriage is simply not a happy venture in Wuthering Heights. Likewise Charlotte presented an image of marriage as stifling to one's character, unless of c...

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... 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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... their own family experiences the Byronic hero is so prevalent throughout their novels, "Jane Eyre," and, "Wuthering Heights," by using psychoanalytic and postcolonial criticisms. Rochester and Heathcliff are described by the Bronte's as near perfect models of a Byronic hero. Both are handsome, but also with dark past secrets. Emily Bronte goes as far as describing ... of God," and, "as dark almost as if it came from the devil," (Bronte, E 77). Rochester and Heathcliff both share the quality of want for a woman they can't have, which is also a very common trait of the hero character crea...

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