Anakin Skywalker

When Anakin Skywalker fails to save the woman of his dreams, he gives himself to the dark side of the force, and transforms into Darth Vader to avenge her death. Displaying behaviors that allow him to be branded a Byronic hero, he even shares a similar fate with the character Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s romantic novel Wuthering Heights. Taking on the role of a Byronic hero, Heathcliff follows the model set forth by Lord Byron himself with his own Byronic heroes: intelligent, manipulative, and…