Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights

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.

In Emily Bronte’s legendary story, Wuthering Heights, everything is mostly centered on one character: Heathcliff. As the story moves through three stages, Heathcliff’s traits begin to change. Wuthering Heights captures the unique romance felt between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Heathcliff’s desire for Catherine consumes him, and eventually drives him to dark stages in his life. At the beginning of this story, Heathcliff is quite blissful. However, throughout the story he begins to fall deeper into the shadows of greed. At the story’s end, Heathcliff has shifted into an astonishingly evil man. Throughout the story, Heathcliff becomes a prime example of what love can do to a person.

    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

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.

In the first three chapters of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood is forced to grapple with the mystery of Heathcliff’s cruelty, watching him do things from “[striking] his forehead with rage” and “savage vehemence” to threatening to physically assault his daughter-in-law (27). The narrative which the original text of Wuthering Heights provides, however, is not concerned with the emotional progression of the individual, assuming that Heathcliff’s savagery is simply characteristic of his very existence. It is through Catherine Earnshaw’s perspective, manifested through her diaries, that Heathcliff’s cruelty can be assessed, not only as a product of his social environment, but as something deeply entrenched in his racial differences. Catherine’s sympathy

At her age, Catherine should have felt the happiest she has even been after Edgar’s proposal, but her emotions toward Heathcliff changed all that. One way she states her love for Heathcliff by saying: “’My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath’” (Brontë 74), illustrating the everlastings of her emotions and that they will never fade no matter what happens. Yet on the other hand, her ambitions get the best of her in which she says to Nelly: “’I shall like to be the greatest woman in the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband [Edgar Linton]’” (Brontë 71). Instead of marrying for true love as seen throughout fairy tales, Catherine marries Edgar solely for reputation, following her mind instead of her heart. The conflict of her following her heart or her mind has led her into denial by imagining that by marrying Edgar she is doing the right thing and that she could raise Heathcliff, for at this time he is poor. Catherine is not the only one affected by denial, Isabella Linton is as well.

As we begin to read Wuthering Heights, we immediately see how unrefined Heathcliff is; therefore, we begin to question what actions or circumstances brought him to this day, to these emotions. Heathcliff’s merit was smaller than even a grain of sand, his “family” didn’t respect him and the

Throughout the compelling conspiracy of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, creates an inhospitable and ominous estate, known as the Heights, that mirrors the savage inhabitants’ demeanor, such as the characters, Joseph or Hindley, but it is for most part apparent with Mr. Heathcliff. In the exposition, the reader gets a clear idea that the Heights is a dim, depressing, miserable residence when Mr. Lockwood first arrives there, and he begins to describes the Heights by observing the terrain; and he thinks to himself, “[O]ne may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs… [and] by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of sun” (4 Emily Brontë d).

This novel is set in the open moors of England, where Bronte grew up.   Nelly Dean,

3. Country of Author: Emily Bronte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, on July 30, 1818

The North Yorkshire moors where 'Wuthering Heights' is set is a bleak, desolate and solitary place. The area was very inaccessible and it would have taken days to get to neighbouring small towns as the only method of transport was by horseback or by horse and cart. As the moor was so remote there was a limited social life and close friendships were only usually between other family members. The women

This essay will discuss the way in which the themes of Romance and the Gothic are portrayed heavily in Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, while also being juxtaposed with dogged Realism, in a way that makes Brontë’s work significant and unprecedented. It aims to highlight how contemporary interpretations of the text as a timeless love story have undermined the powerful realism put forth by Brontë, in her deliberate language and refusal of societal conventions. It will also analyse the extent to which Kosminsky is able to represent these themes accurately, and where the shortcomings of the filmic representation become decidedly apparent. It will explore the representation of the sublime, and discuss how Brontë & Kosminsky’s views on gender and class appear to vary greatly, based primarily on which characters each text elects to focus on developing. Furthermore, it will focus on each text’s interpretation of gender conventions and character development.

Like the beginnings of most novels, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, starts it’s winding, dark tale with a time filled to the brim with the joyous adventures of childhood. Our main characters, Catherine and Heathcliff, begin their story as wild kids exploring the wilder moors of Yorkshire in the late 1700s, and as they reach adolescence, their growing feelings for each other are torn apart by misfortune and cruelty. As time passes and they begin to see the world for how it truly is, they are forced to address the afflictions within them and around them. In a disturbing tale twisted by loss, heartbreak, and devastation, Catherine and Heathcliff must face the harsh reality that they have created for themselves in their strife of greed and

One area in which a critic might have been hostile on is how social classes are depicted in the novel. Victorian England was a time where there were sharply defined class differences, and there was often prejudice and distrust between different groups. Brontë hints at some of these differences, and it is most clearly seen between Catherine, a well educated middle class lady and Heathcliff, an orphaned dark skinned gypsy found on the streets. Catherine openly admits this difference as to why she married Edgar, stating that she would, “become the greatest woman of the neighborhood” later says, “if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggars” (Brontë 73-76). Heathcliff’s low social standing is one of the main reasons Catherine chose the wealthy and well to do Edgar over him. He does not have the

The continual intensity on landscape in The Wuthering Heights leaves symbolic importance. Mostly of Moors: widel, wild expenses and thus infertile. It appear especially waterlogged patches in which people could potentially drown. The moorland moves its symbolic circle onto the love affair.(Spark Notes 2)