Analysis Of The Central Subject Of Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights is a novel which deviates from the standard of Victorian literature. The novels of the Victorian Era were often works of social criticism. They generally had a moral purpose and promoted ideals of love and brotherhood. Wuthering Heights is more of a Victorian Gothic novel; it contains passion, violence, and supernatural elements (Mitchell 119). The world of Wuthering Heights seems to be a world without morals. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë does not idealize love; she presents it realistically, with all its faults and merits. She shows that love is a powerful force which can be destructive or redemptive. Heathcliff has an all-consuming passion for Catherine. When she chooses to marry Edgar, his spurned love turns into a

   "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.

Vivien Zheng Carvalho English Ⅱ K-1 01 May 2018 Wuthering Heights Motif Essay: Gates, Doors, Locks & Keys The ominous history of a petulant landlord, Heathcliff, unravels to the keen curiosity of the new tenant, Mr. Lockwood. Narrated by Nelly Dean, a servant of the household, an unpleasant love triangle between Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, and Edgar Linton presents itself as the force that intertwines the two families through love, betrayal, and revenge. Heathcliff’s unrequited love with Catherine prompts his intention for vengeance at his rival, Edgar, even until the last seconds of their lives.

    Critics analyze and examine Wuthering Heights to obtain a deeper understanding of the message that Emily Bronte wants to convey. By focusing on the different literary elements of fiction used in the novel, readers are better able to understand how the author successfully uses theme, characters, and setting to create a very controversial novel in which the reader is torn between opposite conditions of love and hate, good and evil, revenge and forgiveness in  Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. There is no doubt that the use of conflictive characters such as Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and Edgar, with their interactions in the two different settings creates an

1. As it deteriorates and dies, Heathcliff and Catherine’s relationship serves as a cautionary tale and a witness to love’s destructive nature. Their love for one another is an addiction. Catherine long for Heathcliff and states, “I wish I could hold you.. till we were both dead” (Brontë 357). Catherine understands their relationship as “a source of little visible delight, but necessary” (Brontë 183). She views herself as one in the same with her lover, “Nelly, I am Heathcliff” (Brontë 183). She is obsessed with him-- regardless of her relationship with Edgar, Heathcliff never ceases to occupy her thoughts. If she were to lose Heathcliff, she would effectively go through withdrawal; their love is an addiction. She wants possession of Heathcliff

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Catherine Earnshaw is in love with Heathcliff, a poor orphan who has become her foster brother. Their inseparable bond helps them survive the harshness and cruelty of their lives. However, wealthy Edgar Linton is in love with her as well, and Catherine must choose between them. Cathy sacrifices her future with Heathcliff so that she can marry Edgar Linton. This reveals that she is selfish enough to want a comfortable life at the expense of her "true love", but that she is also pragmatic and knows that having more money will help Heathcliff into a better social situation.

Emily Bronte really does do good job bringing in love, passion, longing, and death and also the afterlife, which has a way of linking them all rolled up into one, and creates the excellent novel that we all refer to in this current time as Wuthering Heights. Even though Catherine and Heathcliff's desire for each other did appear to be the attraction of Wuthering Heights, provided that it is greater and more lasting than any other sentiment that had really put on display throughout the entire novel, Bronte also does a great job with showing the provocative theme of demise and the afterlife in her novel, conferring to the disapproval of Robert M. Polhemus. Polhemus composes a criticism that goes all the way back to the early 1990s era and it was titled, "Love and Death in Wuthering Heights", and in this he makes a huge discussion of death, love, and the afterlife, and then clarifies how all three are connected.

The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte tells a story of a man named Heathcliff, who spends his whole life fueled by jealousy, revenge, and love. As a young boy, he and a girl named Catherine spend a lot of their time together. Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine and wants to pursue a marriage with her, however Catherine has other plans. Catherine is in love with a man named Edgar, but for all the wrong reasons. Thus begins the story of Heathcliff’s revenge.

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.

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 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

The prime theme of Wuthering Heights may be stated as the love of Heathcliff for Catherine and the revenge that he takes upon various individuals, the revenge being evoked by the social contempt or disdain piled upon him by Hindley and Edgar and the frustration of his love. Hindley had a superior attitude towards Heathcliff from the time Heathcliff was brought as a boy to Wuthering Heights. He treated Heathcliff ruthlessly and made him work on the fields like other servants.While Edgar is his rival in love, and a successful rival as Catherine has married him in preference to Heathcliff. Wuthering Heights has a gripping plot with many dramatic situations which arouse feelings of pity or awe or fear