Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights

    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 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.

Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, set in the countryside of England’s 1700’s, features a character named Heathcliff, who is brought into the Earnshaw family as a young boy and quickly falls into a passionate, blinding romance with the Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine. However, Heathcliff is soon crushed by this affection when his beloved chooses the company of another man rather than his own. For the remainder of the novel he exudes a harsh, aversive attitude that remains perduring until his demise that is induced by the loss of his soulmate, and in turn the bereavement of the person to whom the entirety of his being and his very own self were bound.

Wuthering Heights is considered to be Emily Bronte’s masterpiece. It has been discussed, dissected and re-imagined through numerous perspective due to the brilliance of the work. Andrea Arnold however, dismantled everything from the novel only leaving the very basics of Wuthering Heights; anger, love, and agony. The 2011 film focused on Heathcliff’s noxious relationship with Catherine but before we indulge ourselves with the fun bit of the movie, it would only be fair to discuss about other contexts in the film. Biblical Christianity was the very essence of a Victorian society as well as imperialism.

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

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

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

The main settings in the novel; the moors and Wuthering Heights are greatly influential in exploring the gothic elements in this novel. The moors are where Catherine and Heathcliff spend most of their

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

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.

Growing up at the Earnshaw residence, Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider and is constantly looked down upon because of his lowly social status. In his formative years, Heathcliff is deprived of love, affection and education. According to Nelly, Hindley’s maltreatment alone was “enough to make a fiend of a saint” (Bronte 65). Catherine’s selfish betrayal, paired with society’s oppression and degradation, motivate Heathcliff to become a gentleman so that he may take vengeance on those who belittled him and prove himself to Catherine. Heathcliff’s revenge becomes in a sense a “resistance” to the oppression of society (Long 6). This in itself is ironic because Heathcliff begins to accept and “live by the values of the people he formerly detested” (Shapiro 3). Heathcliff becomes so engrossed in climbing the social ladder and enacting revenge on his childhood oppressors that he risks his humanity and individuality. By the end of the novel Heathcliff finds that enacting revenge will not be enough to satisfy him, the only thing that will fulfill him is Catherine’s love. Heathcliff, though in a sense a victim of society, is far from redeemable

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

Emily Bronte, a highly esteemed and imaginative writer, is the mastermind behind the novel Wuthering Heights. When Bronte was very young, her mother passed away from a serious, untreatable sickness. After her death, Branwell, Bronte’s older brother, took care of the children (Pettingell). Her brother, a poet and painter, turned to an alcoholic and drug abuser was responsible for the children as they all grew up together. He was irrational and never treated Emily and her sisters the way they deserved (King). The turmoil inside of the Bronte family led to a lot of chaos and misfortune. The decisions that her brother had to make caused a direct impact on Bronte and her sisters because he was their caretaker.

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)