Comparison of "The Thirteenth Tale" and "Wuthering Heights" Essay

Since its publication, Wuthering Heights has intrigued its readers; a love story gone wrong, twisted by vengeance and heartbreak. Many important factors of the novel are displayed in the portion of the novel narrated by Ellen. The passage in Wuthering Heights in which Catherine Linton’s funeral is described is vital in explaining important relationships in the novel, particularly the relationship between Heathcliff and Edgar Linton.

In both novels the experience of growing up is explored through the use of narratives that span across lifetimes. In ‘Wuthering Heights’ Emily Bronte introduces the characters of Heathcliff and Catherine as children in an 18th century English household. In ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, Khaled Hosseini also introduces both Mariam and Laila from young ages. The purpose of this style of writing allows he reader to provide justification for the events that happen to each character, and support the understanding that the childhoods of each characters determine them as they mature. The experience of growing up is also heavily influenced by contextual factors, and without them the characters would have had very different ordeals.

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;

The story is written as a diary for Mr. Lockwood, which means it is written in first person. In chapter one, Mr. Lockwood goes to Wuthering Heights after a few days new of being a tenant at Thrushcross Grange to visit his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. “Thrush Grange is my own sir, ‘he interrupted, wincing. ‘I should not allow anyone to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it- walk in!” (pg. 368). Mr. Heathcliff does not go out of him way to be pleasant to Lockwood as you can see from the way he talked to him in the quote. He even nods his head when Lockwood ask if he is Mr. Heathcliff. “Wuthering’ being significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather” (pg. 369). This quote tells about Wuthering and how it is used to describe rough winds that blow. The way this story is wrote compares to Emma in that they are both hard for me to comprehend what I am reading. I have to go back over it a few times to make sure I get the true meaning and understand what the story is

Wuthering Heights’s Catherine Earnshaw is infamous for her complex character, some arguing that she is egocentric and 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 and not empathizing with other characters and their needs - subconsciously or not. 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” - an attribute which Catherine exemplifies throughout her lifetime. 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 immaturity and inability to progress from her childhood mindset that is the main catalyst not only in her in the other character’s

Wuthering Heights is a story expressed through observer accounts, first through Lockwood and then by Nelly. Lockwood's accountability is determining the outline of the novel while Nelly provides the sophisticated recount of the individual lives of all the characters having been nearby first

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.

Nelly worked as a servant at Wuthering Heights since she was a girl and grew up with Catherine so she knows her better than anybody. Mostly she likes Catherine but sometimes she does not because Catherine can be mean and she has a bad temper. Nell thinks Catherine acts like a fake. She says “Catherine was full of ambition - and this led her to adopt a double character without exactly intending to deceive any one” When Edgar said bad things about Heathcliff Catherine did not defend him. And when Heathcliff talked about Edgar she did not defend him either.

In the beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book, Voldemort converses with Draco about Charity Burbage and Draco’s reactions when she dies is shocking. Although in the movie adaption of this book, Voldemort does not converse with Draco and when she is killed Draco suppresses his emotions. I will discuss how the novel represents this scene better than the movie, as the book illustrates how Draco is unable to support the Dark lord.

Dean is an active participant in this part of the story, and she acts on the basis of what she believes,” introducing her own ideas into established events, shaped by her ego, her own sense of moral superiority (Marsh 14). On the day that Mr. Earnshaw, Catherine and Hindley’s father, set out on his journey that would culminate in the discovery of Heathcliff, Dean recalls that she sat with Catherine and Hindley as they ate their porridge. When Mr. Earnshaw asks his children what he wants them to pick up, Nelly claims that “he promised to bring me back a pocketful of apples and pears,” for he had “a kind heart” despite the fact that “he was rather severe sometimes” (Brontë 36). In context of the story, Nelly is portraying herself as equivalent to the other two children, being worthy of eating with them. She even scored a recognition from Mr. Earnshaw, pledging to bring her back a handful of fruit; of course, this is not nearly as extravagant as the fiddle or whip requested from Hindley and Catherine, respectively, but the sentiment is still notable. However, this is exactly the type of possible white lie that, when slipped in, does nothing but help equate Nelly to the other esteemed children. Adding points like this to the story help to raise Nelly’s social standing to the levels she thinks she deserves, at least to Lockwood and the reader. Also attributed to her ego is an inflated sense of importance to the drama at Wuthering Heights. Once, over a meal just

First published in 1874, Wuthering Heights is an enduring gothic romance filled with intrigue and terror. It is set in the northern England countryside, where the weather fluctuates in sudden extremes and were bogs can open underfoot of unsuspecting night venturers.

Gothic literature includes elements of style that is usually portrayed in tales and deals with horror, despair, the grotesque, and mysteries. In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, there are many elements of gothic literature that is found throughout the book. The term gothic is very broad in literature, and gothic can mean many different things from characteristics of people, feelings and reactions of a specific setting, mood, actions that happen being people, and so much more. All of this thrived in the 19th century. Gothic is categorized by an emphasis on the dark, gloomy, and mysterious. Ideas such as magic, hidden passages, wind, ghosts, and other supernatural elements, love, etc were all elements in the Gothic movement during the 19th century. Specifically, the descriptions of the settings, both outside and inside, in the novel, the actions of the main protagonists in the novel, and the love between Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights all add on to this idea of a gothic literature or tradition.

In her novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë uses a formal style of writing to portray the language of those used during the early 1800s. Throughout the majority of the novel, Nelly Dean is telling the story of how Wuthering Heights came to be the place that it currently is. Throughout Dean’s narration, characters are voiced differently due to their role in society. An example of this is shown when Brontë would use fragments of words to represent the speech of Hareton, one of the servants of Wuthering Heights. In contrast, Catherine, being well educated, would use sophisticated grammar and an extensive vocabulary whenever she spoke. Heathcliff was revealed as a two-sided character in this reading. On one hand, the author would use negative

The novel Wuthering Heights begins with an outsider, Mr. Lockwood, paying a visit to his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. At first Lockwood, who is seeking solitude “from the stir of society”(1), believes that Heathcliff is something of a soulmate: “my heart warmed to him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows”(1), but by the end of Chapter II, Lockwood says, “I no longer felt inclined to call Heathcliff a capital fellow” (8). The Heathcliff of 1801, the year the novel begins, is the owner of Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights, but he chooses to live in the remote dwelling shaped by “atmospheric tumult”(2) with an odd assortment of housemates: the family heir Hareton Earnshaw, his widowed daughter-in-law Catherine, the “scandalous old hypocrite” (10) Joseph, and the housekeeper Zillah. How did Heathcliff come to be the person who we meet at the beginning of the novel? In Chapters IV-VII of Wuthering Heights, Nelly Dean tells Mr. Lockwood about Heathcliff’s upbringing in the Earnshaw household. Several of the relationships and environmental influences described in Chapters IV-VII of Wuthering Heights provide significant clues to the character of Heathcliff that Lockwood meets in the opening pages of the novel.

The narrator is unknown to the readers but describes Catherine’s, and other characters inner thoughts, that would otherwise be reserved to them. Although it is Catherine that is made the main focus, “Catherine’s feelings, as she got into the carriage, were in a very unsettled state; divided between regret for the loss of one great pleasure, and the hope of soon enjoying another”, her narrative representation is sympathetic and pleasant but the third-person structure also allows for Catherine’s nature to be presented without confusing the