Emily Brontë’s Personal Influence on Wuthering Heights

At six years old Emily Brontë attended Clergy Daughters' School on Cowan Bridge with her sisters Charlotte, Maria, and Elizabeth. The conditions of the school were so unhealthy. This did not stop the girls from going until the two oldest sisters, Maria and Elizabeth fell ill. Soon after falling ill Maria and Elizabeth died from tuberculosis in 1825. Soon after Emily and Charlotte were taken from the school by their father and never went back. {{Give credit to your

Firstly, readers can notice that following her father’s death, Miss Emily was ‘sick for a long time’. Furthermore, it’s around this time she begins to become socially inactive and even awkward. Faulkner goes on by telling the readers

   "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 death Miss Emily’s father, as one of the most influential figures in her life, caused her to have a serious mental break. He died of an unknown cause and the townspeople were ready to help his daughter through this tough time. When they arrived, they found her clothed as normal with an even temperament. In fact “she told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body.” (Chapter 2) Having been attached to this man for her entire life, Miss Emily sees no other way to continue so she truly believes he is still alive. She is unable to deal with the idea that he has abandoned her and left her with no one to spend her days with other than the manservant. The doctors and ministers end up having to take the body away after three days and disposing of it. After that “she was sick for a long time. When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows – sort of tragic and serene.”

In 1824 the four eldest Brontë daughters were enrolled as pupils at the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge. The following year Maria and Elizabeth, the two eldest daughters, became ill, left the school and died: Charlotte and Emily, understandably, were brought home.

The three younger Bronte sisters became fast friends. The years of careful story crafting together as children bled into their adult lives when they wrote poetry

Charlotte Brontё was born on April 21, 1916 in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the third of six children. Her parents were Patrick Brontё and Maria Branwell Brontё. Her father worked as an Anglican clergyman originally from Ireland. Though Patrick Brontё was also a published poet, he and his family were poor. He worked at a parsonage in Thornton, where he and his family would remain for most of their lives. “[Patrick] had been appointed as perpetual curate there, meaning an appointment for life: he and his family could live in the parsonage as long as he continued his work there.” The Brontё children grew up without their mother as she had passed away after giving birth to the youngest child, Anne. The children were cared for by Maria’s older sister, Elizabeth, who had moved from Cornwall to help care for the children and for the parsonage. (Lewis, Jone Johnson. “Known for: author of Jane Eyre...”) Not only did Charlotte’s family lose their mother, her two eldest siblings had passed away as well, leaving only Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell. (Bio.com Editors)

The morning of Emily’s death was a normal school day. After school she went home and was doing her everyday chores, involving her horses, and she somehow she was injured by one. She was instantly taken to the hospital, following her sister, who is in 7th grade and was playing in a volleyball game, she was instantly taken from the game by her father. The news of Emily’s death was received right after she was pronounced deceased.

When her father passed away, it was a devastating loss for Miss Emily. The lines from the story 'She told

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

Women’s rights have been a question greatly discussed for quite some time, and the debate is still continuing despite the possibilities offered to women today. Feminism nowadays has evolved into a movement in a number of directions, starting with women equality and ending with homosexuality. However, feminism originally is an ideology that is based on equal political, economic and social rights for women. Feminism theory deals with analysing women’s social roles and experiences in relation to gender inequality. Traces of this ideology are vastly represented and can be found in a number of literary works, as notable examples are novels written by female authors (the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and others) during the Age

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

Gothic literature originated and was very strong at the time of the Romantic Writers Movement. They were very popular and had authors such as Horace Walpole who wrote “The Castle of Oranto”, and novels such as “Frankenstein” and “Dracula“. Gothic novels all had a similarity between each other. They always had typical Gothic features which alleviated the novel in one way or another. For example, most Gothic novels involved settings which generally added fear and suspense. They were always quite dark, scary and isolated. Also the characters of the Gothic novels never seemed to fit in the community and the society. They usually were handicapped, disabled or deformed