Lear’s Supplication Foreshadowed in Wuthering Heights

Abstract

 This research aims at examining the literary linguistic relationship between Bronte Wuthering Heights and Shakespeares King Lear, and whether or not Emily Bronte is influenced by Shakespeares use of language especially in King Lear. The language used in King Lear particularly by Lear himself as the protagonist of the play has fascinated Bronte and therefore she has adopted the same linguistic ability to her hero Heathcliff. 
Shakespeare and Bronte use the language of supplication as an important dramatic canon in the process of presenting and imaging their characters. They are unique writers who teach their characters  how to develop their power of supplication. The characters are fully aware that they have a mission of learning and improving the supplicating capabilities through the ongoing struggles and hostilities they face. Joyce Carol (1983) states that because of the level of language Wuthering Heights strikes its readers as it is managed by the novelist to be a number of things: a romance that brilliantly challenges the basic presumptions of the