Analysis Of Emily Bronte 's ' Wuthering Heights ' Essay

According to Juliet Barker, "Emily Jane Bronte was born July 30, 1818" (Barker 1). In

   "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff" (81)" These words, uttered by Catherine, in the novel Wuthering Heights are for me the starting point in my investigation into the themes of love and obsession in the novel. Catherine has just told her housekeeper that she has made up her mind to marry Edgar Linton, although she is well aware that her love for him is bound to change as time passes. That she is obsessed by her love for Heathcliff she confirms in the above quotation and by saying that she will never, ever be separated from him. Why does she not marry him then? Well, she has

Heathcliff cried vehemently, "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" Emily Brontë distorts many common elements in Wuthering Heights   to enhance the quality of her book. One of the distortions is Heathcliff's undying love for Catherine Earnshaw. Also, Brontë perverts the vindictive hatred that fills and runs Heathcliff's life after he loses Catherine. Finally, she prolongs death, making it even more distressing and insufferable.

In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses the setting of the English Moors, a setting she is familiar with, to place two manors, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The first symbolizes man's dark side while the latter symbolizes an artificial utopia. This 19th century setting allows the reader to see the destructive nature of love when one loves the wrong person.

The root cause of all actions and behaviour of a person can be found through an in depth psychological analysis. Even in literature, a well-written character often demonstrates a complex psychological profile. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is rich with such troubled characters. Heathcliff is a perfect example of the theories of early childhood development; his inability to resolve fundamental conflicts in childhood impedes his social and moral development as he ages. Analysis of Heathcliff’s behaviour also reveals many key signs that Heathcliff suffers from an antisocial personality disorder. Finally, psychology also explains why Heathcliff develops such an intense attraction to Catherine. Heathcliff’s psychological profile is complex, involving stunted development, personality disorders, and even attraction theory.

All four read avidly of their father’s library, from which they educated themselves, as formal schooling was lacking. Emily attended school for only a few months at the age of seventeen, and studied for a short time in Belgium with Charlotte in 1842. Despite this brevity of education, the Bronte children remained interested in literature and their own writing for their entire lives.

Jane Austen had a difficult yet prosperous childhood. She was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England on December 16, 1775, to her parents George Austen and Cassandra Leigh. (Spence 21; Biography.com editors) Even though George and Cassandra were married, they decided

Author’s Background- Edgar Allan Poe was born on January, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, United Stated. He was short story writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is known around the world for his writing fictional horror stories.

Heathcliff is associated with evil and darkness from the beginning of the novel. "I felt his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows." (1) When Lockwood sees Heathcliff's garden (perhaps a symbol for Heathcliff) "the earth was hard with a black frost…the air made me shiver through every limb." (6)

Emily Jane Brontë (born 30 July, 1818 | Died December, 19, 1848) was born in Thorton. She was one of six Bronte children; she kept to herself usually and was unusually quiet. In 1835 she briefly attend Miss Wooler’s school at Roe Head. Around 1837 Emily taught at Law Hill School. In 1842 she and Charlotte studied in Brussels.

Love is a strong attachment between two lovers and revenge is a strong conflict between two rivals. In the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses setting to establish contrast, to intensify conflict, and to develop character. The people and events of Wuthering Heights share a dramatic conflict. Thus, Bronte focuses on the evil eye of Heathcliff's obsessive and perpetual love with Catherine, and his enduring revenge to those who forced him and Catherine apart. The author expresses the conflict of Wuthering Heights with great intensity. Hence, she portrays a combination of crucial issues of romance and money, hate and power, and lastly

      The Romantic Period was a very imaginative and creative period of thinking. The literature produced during this period reflected this wild and free-spirited imagination. The works dismissed the Enlightenment thinkers in their claims of "Reason, progress, and universal truths" (Damrosch, 1317). Instead, these writers explored superstitions and had a renewed sense of passion for the wild, the unfamiliar, the irregular, and the irrational (Damrosch, 1317). Other common elements of the writing during this period were the returned interest of gothic romance elements, a fascination of exploring the inner world of the mind and the unconscious into its dark side, an interest in emotional

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish,” said Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island. Any person can write a book, but to be able to write what you mean and affect your readers is very difficult. A writer simply can’t just drop dialogue into a character’s mouth without having any context of the dialogue. If an author has his or her character saying “I’m broke,” what does this really mean without any context? To Oprah Winfrey, being broke may mean she can’t buy a Silk Jet, a winery, or a country. To a middle- class American, being broke may mean they can’t buy a new pair of shoes that week, buy a new car, or get their hair

Liverpool Mr. Earnshaw picks up a homeless boy and brings him home with him, to

Jane Eyre, an orphan, lives with her abusive aunt, Sarah Reed, and her mean-spirited cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana, at Gateshead Hall. She is sent away to the Lowood School where the conditions are very harsh. Jane