Agnes Grey Mood

One big turning point marked by stormy weather in the book is the day Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights for the first time. After hearing Catherine say that she could never marry him, Heathcliff’s heart is broken and he creeps out of the house. When Catherine realizes his absence, she gets extremely agitated, pacing from the gate to the door of the house and wondering where he could be.

Similarly, in Saki's short story, "The Interlopers," the mood helps to illustrate the overall theme of the literary piece. One example is that the author establishes the mood of vengeance and hostility as the author states, "Ulrich von Grandwitz patrolled the dark forest

Nature is used as a metaphor for many things in life and in the pages of a novel. One can use spring as a rejuvenation of the soul, winter as a barren wasteland, summer the splendor of someone’s life, and autumn the bringer of death. Zora Neal Hurston uses these and similar aspects of nature as a pillar in her novel Their Eyes were Watching God to describe the progression of the life of Janie, the main character.

The novel’s title Wuthering Heights is known by the text as “the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling” (Brontë 4). The adjective “wuthering” appears to illustrate the environment (literally and figuratively). Literally, it is “descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed, in stormy weather” (Brontë 4). This further explains that figurative meaning of the title, suggesting and foreshadowing much chaos and conflicts, adding a gloomy tone and bleak image, which are main characteristics of gothic novels.

He uses mood to make the setting a dark and dreary day this makes for a sad and distressed mood. The father, Mr. White talks about how awful their living conditions are. He goes to say, ‘ That’s the worst of living so far out,’ ‘Can’t walk on the footpath without getting stuck in the mud, and the road’s a river. I don’t know what the people are thinking about.’ This shows that it is a dreary day and place to live and when days are dreary and wet outside it makes me feel sad and distressed I don’t feel joyful. He uses tone when the author write, ‘ cried Mr. White with sudden and unexpected violence:’ and when people are using an angry tone with you don’t get happy and excited, it makes you upset and

The theme of nature, environment, and landscape has always been integral in the development of plot for different genres of literature. Apparently, nature plays a significant role in the well-being of people. Humanity is dependent on the natural environment for its survival. Recently, there have been numerous threats towards the environment which when left unchecked lead to its destruction (MacFarlane 2). With the inception of the relentless efforts to create environmental awareness, different approaches and avenues have been utilized to ensure the intended message is gotten by a large section of the public.

The Haunted House Foreshadowing is one of the most widely used literary devices by writers. It provides a hint as to what it going to come later in the text. Sometimes it is outright obvious that there is an instance of foreshadowing, but many times it goes completely unnoticed to the reader. Foreshadowing creates a state of mystery, resulting in many “ah-ha” moments of remembrance and takes readers full circle to connect and understand the initial hints given. In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, there are many instances of foreshadowing that create a mysterious atmosphere, keeping the reader on their toes and provoking them to find out the full story behind the darkness of the house and inhabitants of Wuthering Heights.

Throughout the course of history, authors from different places and time periods have integrated nature in their writing. Throughout various works of literature nature is commonly used for scenery, symbolism, and when paired with other things motif. To take things farther, the famous American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, deploys nature as a way to mirror characters motives and thoughts. Specifically in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne definitively employs the use of a long “babbling brook” to mirror the character Hester Prynne’s motives and thoughts in a unique and distinctive way by giving the brook similar characteristics to Hester.

    Charlotte Bronte makes extensive use of nature imagery in her novel, Jane Eyre, commenting on both the human relationship with the outdoors and with human nature. The Oxford Reference Dictionary defines "nature" as "1. the phenomena of the physical world as a whole . . . 2. a thing's essential qualities; a person's or animal's innate character . . . 4. vital force, functions, or needs." Bronte speaks to each of these definitions throughout Jane Eyre.

The description of the setting of Wuthering Heights is described so thoroughly, which emphasizes the gothic tradition in this book. It is 1801 and Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, writes in his diary that he has rented a house in the Yorkshire countryside, or New England. After he arrived there, he visits his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. Heathcliff lives

Wuthering Heights is depicted as a cold, threatening, and dark manor, situated on a "bleak hilltop." In the novel, "wuthering" is the local adjective to describe the "atmospheric tumult" present in the region. The rugged manor, Wuthering Heights, represents a "storm", characterized by the wild emotions and harsh behaviors of the inhabitants. The depressing atmosphere causes people to "shiver through every limb" at the "sorrowful sight" of the Heights. In deep contrast, Thrushcross Grange is described as a "splendid place" of elegance and comfort. The peaceful dwelling of the Grange represents higher values and morals, and is considered the "calm" residence of the novel. The author creatively reveals the theme of good versus evil, or the calm versus the storm, through the pronounced symbolic differences in the houses.

When Heathcliff ran off, Bronte describes that evening as “a very dark evening for summer: the clouds appear[ing] inclined to thunder” (Bronte, 84). The impending thunderstorm introduces that chaos that is about to ensue when Heathcliff cannot be found that evening. The storm finally arrives and all hell is about to break loose. The “violent wind, as well as thunder,…split a tree off” of a building just as Catherine was getting more and more anxious about her split from Heathcliff (Bronte, 85). The symbolism that weather represents in Wuthering Heights carries on throughout the first volume of the

Heathcliff is harsh and fierce, for he seems dark and mysterious because he never shows his emotions. When first introduced to Heathcliff in the novel, he lacked hospitality and comfort towards Lockwood when he had come to visit him as a guest. Heathcliff, for the beginning parts of his life, stood in a lower social class than the people he lived around, and therefore created a dark attitude towards others out of anger and jealousy. His dark and evil traits are connected to landscape around his house, Wuthering Heights, for they have the same characteristics as Heathcliff. The landscape that surrounds the house can be described as rugged, and it is exposed to extreme weather elements that reflect Heathcliff’s emotions and traits. The harsh snow that falls at Wuthering Heights makes the outdoors uninviting, just as Heathcliff’s personality makes him seem uninviting. Neither the snow, the landscape, nor Heathcliff give off a warm, comforting feeling, but instead give off harsh, cold

The novel reveals elements of realism and romanticism which qualifies it as a hybrid. There are many features in that novel that exemplify the Romantic period like the settings and the characters. Despite the fact that the novel did not indicate a happy ending, it still delivers a romantic story that deals with a strange, yet original love story of underlying human passion and untamed human nature, which is a conspicuous Romantic effect. As we all know Romantics appreciate nature to a great extent, and nature / landscapes in that novel are exclusively given the central scope of symbolism, where the settings carry expressions of themes and emotions. Wuthering Heights in its gothic setting alone is a feature of Romanticism. Whether it was the Moors, the Grange or even the Heights, each setting was described explicitly in relation to the inhabitants and their feelings towards those places. For example Catherine rejecting a Christian heaven and her longing to inhabit an earthly one which is Wuthering Heights exhibit the significance of nature in terms of

Syntax and Diction - Wuthering Heights presents a variety of different styles, ranging from Catherine’s poetic speech, Heathcliff’s verbal ferocity, Lockwood’s greater literary discourse, Nelly’s lecturing rhetoric, and Joseph’s unintelligible muttering. Brontë is very much direct in her method of introducing movement in the novel. Each sentence leads the reader directly to the thought attempting to be conveyed. Just in the opening paragraphs it says “Pure bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms