Analysis Of Emily Bronte 's ' Wuthering Heights '

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a wild, twisted, passionate, and tragic love story between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. The book has many similarities and differences with the elements of fairy tales. These elements also reflects on the way Emily Bronte has been brought up due to her surroundings and family. Most fairy tales usually ends with a happy ending where the prince and princess live happily ever after, however this one has a much more dark and vengeful taste.

   "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.

While Wuthering Heights was a symbol of darkness and winter, Thrushcross Grange could only be described as its opposite. Thrushcross Grange can be seen as a happy place that is light and summery. Its inhabitants are blissful and naive. They did not worry or have to fend for themselves because there is always money and servants to wait on them. The inhabitants of the house are ignorant of the cruelties and injustices of the outside world. When Isabella, Edgar's sister, marries Heathcliff and is taken to the Heights, she too learns these realities and is destroyed by them. She is imprisoned in the Heights by her husband. Isabella writes Nelly and describes her depression;

Wuthering Heights, a novel written by Emily Brontë is a passionate story of the intense love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Written in the Victorian Era where social class played a major role in determining one’s position in society, Brontë utilizes mirroring characters to illustrate the parallelism of multiple characters to present the idea that one’s identity and the choices they make mirror their social standing.

Wuthering Heights is home to Heathcliff, Catherine, Hindley, and Nelly. Wuthering Heights gives off a more rebellious, free-spirited vibe. It has a more country feel compared to Thrushcross Grange. Wuthering Heights lacks hospitality and comfort. The people in Wuthering Heights represent more wild, rebellious characters. Heathcliff and Catherine are great examples of this free-spirited, wild, and rebellious characters in how they run off together and just the way they live their lives, especially when they were younger before Catherine married Edgar and moved to Thrushcross Grange. The characters in Wuthering Heights also represent a more middle to lower class household compared to the lavish life lived at Thrushcross Grange.

By manipulating Hindley’s son, Hareton’s morals at such a young age, he reflects such a diabolical and poor-tempered personality. Heathcliff forces Hareton to labor outside as Hindley ordered Heathcliff, trying to balance punishments (Bronte 195). Hareton’s rude behavior ruins his chances of making friends, which affects Heathcliff, who dies a guilty man. His unjust morals cause him stress, for he himself sets up the disaster of his life. After living his whole life with his mother, “[Heathcliff] has [sent Joseph] for his lad,” to gain the prospective property of Thrushcross Grange (Bronte 202). Forcing Linton and Cathy together to obtain the land causes major issues within the walls of Wuthering Heights, casting a negative energy over the whole house. Heathcliff’s plans to gain success through vengeance creates an awful situation in the home for Heathcliff himself, Cathy, Linton, and everyone else at Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff’s attempts to revenge the heirs of those who wrong him causes chaos, ruining everyone’s happiness and sanity who live at Wuthering

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte’, although she first published her novels under a gentleman’s name. Her famous novel has become a classic in English literature. It would be the least to say her imagination was quite impressive. Through her child imagination, Bronte’ and her siblings would write children stories. “Emily’s childhood created an imaginary nation, originating from the numerous poems devoted to the doings of the Gondals” (Bradner 129). The ‘Gondal’ poems they wrote inspired some of the fairly known novels. “The Gondals were written in her poetry as late as 1845” (Bradner 129). Wuthering Heights contains crossing genres, changing settings, multiple narrators, and unreliable narrators. Bonte’s techniques and ideals

Controversial Viewpoints Presented in Wuthering Heights The plot and ongoing legacy of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights leaves readers with both the feeling of astonishment and discomfort. Unlike most romantic stories of the 19th century, Wuthering Heights employs the role of a disturbing novel that advertises itself as a love story. It portrays dark, gothic, and often times morbid views of love and compassion. “The social’s dominance emerges in too much pain and violence to become a comfort zone, the psychic’s persistence ensures ‘unquiet slumbers’ after all the pain inflicted. Wuthering Heights, in other words, allows its aesthetics to complicate ideological preference: imparting a complex reading experience--liberal anguish--creates ideological

In the chapter XV of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights book reveals the complex relationship as lover between Heathcliff and Catherine. In order to demonstrate that feeling of love is hard to forget, Emily Bronte reveals that their love was so strong that it destroyed the distance and their relationship with other, but Catherine and Heathcliff never can be together because they are stubborn and never fight for their relationship between others because they do not want to hurt their partners.

Have you ever read a book where you have a hard time keeping track of characters and events and the order of the book? Well than you must have come across this gothic novel called “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte. She combines more than one element of a gothic novel and that is craziness, obsession and villain heroes. The novel is formed around the two similar love stories of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff and the young Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw. The motif of this book is full of doubles and repetitions; it has two protagonists as mentions earlier, Catherine and Heathcliff, two narrators, Mr. Lockwood and Nelly, and two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. In spite of all this, Emily Bronte wasn’t just

I848, at the age of only 30, the sensational recognised Wuthering Heights made a monumental dramatic entrance for her career. She was a greedy woman, greedy for strong passionate words that will zap electrical shocks of emotion, irony and fear through your body. Words which both you and I cannot ever put together as she did, her name, Emily Brontë.

In addition, to better understand the book, you first have to get an overview of the author. Emily Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England, the third child of the Reverend Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell Bronte. Emily and her sisters—entertained themselves by reading Shakespeare, Milton, Virgil and the Bible. As well as playing on the Yorkshire moors were they dreamed up fanciful, fabled worlds, creating a constant stream of tales, such as the Young Men plays (1826) and Our Fellows

In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights revenge is a common, reoccurring theme. According to Webster’s Dictionary, revenge is to inflict punishment in return for injury or insult. Within the novel, Wuthering Heights, revenge is an action taken by many people in order to redeem themselves. However, all of the characters end up in misery because of their hearts’ desire to avenge. In many novels, revenge is an action typically taken by the main villain upon the main hero. Revenge occurs often in both fiction and non-fiction books. Within Withering Heights, there are three examples of revenge that posses romantic tenets; Heathcliff’s revenge on Edgar and Catherine is the isolation tenet; Catherine’s revenge on Heathcliff is the elevated

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