Wuthering Heights influenced The Twilight Saga

Stephenie Meyer wrote Eclipse as her Wuthering Heights book and put the novel in it as a prop. Bella reads it through the book, it is quoted at the chapter heads, and Meyer has discussed the parallel in interviews. The tie-in edition of Wuthering Heights was published with a Twilight cover for that reason. What carries:

• A love presented as destructive and inevitable rather than as a good thing, which the novel treats as a fact about the characters rather than a flaw to fix
• Heathcliff as the model for a male lead who is dangerous to the heroine and is loved for it rather than in spite of it
• The triangle of the wild outsider, the settled respectable choice, and a woman who cannot let either go

Filed MEDIUM. The debt is real and stated, but it belongs to one book of four, and Twilight's own machinery (the vampire rules, the Quileute wolves, the Volturi) owes Brontë nothing.