Analysis Of The Book ' Wuthering Heights '

It seems to be a simple love story of two suffering souls - Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. But this love can hardly exist in reality - it's a fantasy of Emily Bronte, she created a sample of a real eternal passion - powerful and boundless. Only death seemed to be stronger than it. Though, after Cathy and Heathcliff are dead, these similar souls joined... There's no doubt in it.

    As we look to the past for clues to some authors and their works we may find clues to why they may have written some of these great works of art in their own life stories. Life and questions about it may have some effect on what some wordsmiths put to paper. If careful consideration is given to the past life of Emily Bronte the novel Wuthering Heights  may be seen as somewhat of a mirror of her life. Much of her life is shrouded in mystery, but there is evidence that can and should be looked at as similar to the lives of several of the characters with this great novel.

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Heathcliff’s strong love for Catherine guides his transformation as a character. While Heathcliff enters the story as an innocent child, the abuse he receives at a young age and his heartbreak at Catherine’s choice to marry Edgar Linton bring about a change within him. Heathcliff’s adulthood is consequently marked by jealousy and greed due to his separation from Catherine, along with manipulation and a deep desire to seek revenge on Edgar. Although Heathcliff uses deceit and manipulation to his advantage throughout the novel, he is never entirely content in his current situation. As Heathcliff attempts to revenge Edgar Linton, he does not gain true fulfillment. Throughout Wuthering Heights, Brontë uses Heathcliff’s vengeful actions to convey the message that manipulative and revenge-seeking behaviors will not bring a person satisfaction.

The author chooses this title as a metaphor for the plot of the book. The term “wuthering” refers to a fierce and violent wind. This refers to the conflicts that occur within the house. However, the whole title is “Wuthering Heights,” which refers to Heathcliff’s home. The text states “Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong”, which could indicate the perseverance that the characters have to withstand the “wuthering” conflicts (Brontë 4).

“Terror made me cruel”(30). In Emily Bronte’s novel of Gothic fiction, Wuthering Heights, Bronte presents an almost convoluted idea of a supernatural role which would begin to play a significant part in aiding readers to unravel and appreciate the delicate plot of her story. Beginning in chapter three with the dreams explained by Mr. Lockwood, and dispersing amongst the remainder of the book through to the the end, the concepts of ghosts and the supernatural provide us with pivotal information that would lead us to later question the motives of various characters such as Heathcliff, and determine weather we could appreciate the novel in its entirety.With the accompaniment, but the necessity of the belief in such paranormal acquaintances,

The juxtaposition of sharply disparate elements, i.e. "clashing contrasts," can give rise to violence. Such is certainly true of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. In fact, the entire novel could be analyzed using comparison and contrast. Examples of the "clashing contrasts" are found in the violence between Heathcliff and Edgar, Heathcliff and Linton, Heathcliff and Hindley, Catherine and Isabella, and Heathcliff and Isabella. Other contrasts which serve to explicate the plot and relationships are the differences between Heathcliff and Edgar, Hareton and Linton, and Nelly and Lockwood.

First things first, Wuthering Heights is a fiction novel written by Emily Brontë. The incidents take place in a gloomy atmosphere, it can also be defined as the setting, named as “Wuthering Heights”, in which determines the overall plot of this novel. Brontë mostly uses the “first person” perspective because the readers mostly see the personal “I” throughout the novel especially in the first chapter. The narrator tells the story by himself (Mr. Lockwood). So, that is why the author uses personal “I”. When it comes to the setting again, it creates a gloomy atmosphere in the first chapter as well as in the whole novel.

On the face of it, it would seem that the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is self-destructive to an extreme. Due to the lovers’ precarious circumstances, passionate personalities and class divisions, it seems that fate transpires to keep them apart and therefore the hopelessness of their situation drives them to self destruction. However, although the relationship is undeniably self-destructive, there are elements within it that suggest the pain Heathcliff and Catherine put each other through is atoned for to an extent when they share their brief moments of harmony.

The good and evil is changed after the second generation of the family fix their problems.

Wuthering Heights is a book containing an intricate plot, and a labyrinth of relationships and emotions. The characterization in this book

Wuthering Heights’s Catherine Earnshaw is infamous for her complex character, some arguing that she is manipulative, others sympathizing with the difficult choices she is faced with. However, there is no doubt that she is innately childish. As Catherine grows older, her character is not changed; she remains juvenile and selfish, making everything a game that revolves around her. In a sense, her mindset never progresses past one of a child. As Sigmund Freud wrote in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, “What makes an infant characteristically different from every other stage of human life is that the child is polymorphously perverse”. Children are dominated by what Freud labelled as the “ID”, or the unconscious instinctual selfish urges one experiences. Ultimately, children are egocentric, expect to gain what they want, and do not understand complexity in others’ feelings - all characteristics Catherine exemplifies. Her selfishness goes beyond the "ordinary self-centeredness" (Thormahlen 5) one might encounter in a regular adult - rather, Catherine directly affects her relationships with people through her "perverse" actions, and still does not recognize the harm in doing so. She exists in an irresponsible state, not perceiving that "she cannot have, and be, everything she wants whenever she wants it” (5) - and this is reflected in every single relationship she experiences. It is Catherine’s intrinsic

The catalyst of this whole story was when Catherine got bitten by a dog at Thrushcross Grove and was forced to remain there. She returned home to Wuthering Heights a changed woman. No longer the mischievous little girl that loved to get in trouble with Heathcliff, she was a polite young lady interested in Edgar Linton. There are three definite divisions in the book, before Heathcliff and Catherine go to Thrushcross Grange, the time immediately after she returns, and life after she marries Edgar.

wait, if I can do it at last I hope he does not die before I do!"

Wuthering Heights is considered a classic piece of literature which means that it has withstood the test of time, proving its importance and relevance with readers throughout the years. The novel takes place in late seventeen hundred –  mid eighteen hundred and is written in two parts: the first part is written about one generation, and the second part is written about the second generation. Throughout the novel there are three prominent concepts; love, betrayal, and revenge. The concept of love leads to the desire of revenge. Many of the characters have feelings of suffering and pain due to the concept of betrayal observed throughout the novel.

This research paper propose to portray the different forms of narration in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The narrative style that Brontë uses is unique. It includes multiple points of views. The reader is two times away from the events, sometimes three times. In the beginning Lockwood narrates the events in a diary form, then he starts telling the events from Nelly’s point of view. When Nelly’s narration starts as a witness on the events of the past the readers are two steps removed from the events. But when she narrates events that other characters told her, the readers are 3 steps away from the story. However, such narrative distance doesn’t make the readers emotionally distant from characters or events. Brontë uses different narrators that leads to the use of different literary techniques to keep the readers close and connected to the events.