Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: Deadly Vengeance

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Heathcliff’s strong love for Catherine guides his transformation as a character. While Heathcliff enters the story as an innocent child, the abuse he receives at a young age and his heartbreak at Catherine’s choice to marry Edgar Linton bring about a change within him. Heathcliff’s adulthood is consequently marked by jealousy and greed due to his separation from Catherine, along with manipulation and a deep desire to seek revenge on Edgar. Although Heathcliff uses deceit and manipulation to his advantage throughout the novel, he is never entirely content in his current situation. As Heathcliff attempts to revenge Edgar Linton, he does not gain true fulfillment. Throughout Wuthering Heights, Brontë uses Heathcliff’s vengeful actions to convey the message that manipulative and revenge-seeking behaviors will not bring a person satisfaction.

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.

“But poor Hareton, the most wronged, was the only one who truly suffered,” (page 315 in Wuthering Heights) Nelly Dean states as her reaction to Heathcliff’s demise, showing that Hareton was able to show sympathy for Heathcliff when he died. It is not until the ending that the story of Hareton finally gets the prize he truly deserved. Heathcliff’s death symbolizes Hareton’s liberty and he eventually is able to chase his love for younger Cathy. Cathy and Hareton are the only characters that aren’t affected by vengeance, selfishness, arrogance, and intense desire. The only happy ever after Wuthering Heights had was their marriage and Hareton triumphs with true romantic redemption. Not only is Hareton’s freeing from sin the righteous and most harmless, but it is a representation for what Catherine and Heathcliff could have had. Heathcliff’s story begins through heartache and arrogance, it is carried out by vengeance, and concludes with himself cruelly gaining power in the wrong cunning ways. It is because of his pain and suffer that Heathcliff creates

Have you ever read a book where you have a hard time keeping track of characters and events and the order of the book? Well than you must have come across this gothic novel called “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte. She combines more than one element of a gothic novel and that is craziness, obsession and villain heroes. The novel is formed around the two similar love stories of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff and the young Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw. The motif of this book is full of doubles and repetitions; it has two protagonists as mentions earlier, Catherine and Heathcliff, two narrators, Mr. Lockwood and Nelly, and two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. In spite of all this, Emily Bronte wasn’t just

      The Romantic Period was a very imaginative and creative period of thinking. The literature produced during this period reflected this wild and free-spirited imagination. The works dismissed the Enlightenment thinkers in their claims of "Reason, progress, and universal truths" (Damrosch, 1317). Instead, these writers explored superstitions and had a renewed sense of passion for the wild, the unfamiliar, the irregular, and the irrational (Damrosch, 1317). Other common elements of the writing during this period were the returned interest of gothic romance elements, a fascination of exploring the inner world of the mind and the unconscious into its dark side, an interest in emotional

Knowledge is not only power, but also, the ability to distinguish one person from the rest of the people. Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights, was a copy of her siblings and therefore used her extreme passion for learning and teaching to set herself apart from her siblings. In the novel, Wuthering Heights, Brontë creates many similar characters but differentiate between them solely on their mental capacity. Growing up in a household of writers and artists, Emily Brontë felt like a copy of her siblings and therefore used Gnosticism as a way to separate herself from her siblings; this is evident in the tension between closely related characters in Wuthering Heights.

I848, at the age of only 30, the sensational recognised Wuthering Heights made a monumental dramatic entrance for her career. She was a greedy woman, greedy for strong passionate words that will zap electrical shocks of emotion, irony and fear through your body. Words which both you and I cannot ever put together as she did, her name, Emily Brontë.

In the Gothic novel “Wuthering Heights” shades of redemption rather than just simple “love story” elements can be foreseen. The reader could find almost impossible to see a sort of salvation in the book and mostly because it is what he is waiting for since the first chapters and that he does not see it, yet it is still present. At the end of the second volume, when all the characters from the previous chapters, who represent the “roots” of the two families, die, redemption emerges the most. With his strong education and kindness, Hareton cleanses off all the sins committed by all the people before him in his family tree and mainly Heathcliff’s sins. As Hareton, Young Cathy, eradicates all her mother Catherine’s sins. The two last

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte’. It would be the least to say her imagination was quite impressive. Through imagination as a child, Bronte’ and her sisters would write children stories, which inspired some popularly known novels. Wuthering Heights contains crossing genres, changing settings, multiple narrators, and unreliable narrators. George R. R. Martin wrote the book Game of Thrones, which is one of the modern day novels that contain several of Emily Bronte’s writing techniques used in Wuthering Heights. Game of Thrones could be compared fairly easily to Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte’ opened the doors for new techniques and different styles of writing for many modern novelist.

Throughout the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë effectively utilizes weather and setting as methods of conveying insight to the reader of the personal feeling of the characters. While staying at Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood made a visit to meet Mr. Heathcliff for a second time, and the horrible snow storm that he encounters is the first piece of evidence that he should have perceived about Heathcliff's personality. The setting of the moors is one that makes them a very special place for Catherine and Heathcliff, and they are thus very symbolic of their friendship and spirts. The weather and setting are very effective tools used throughout the end of the novel as well, for when the weather becomes nice it is not only symbolic of

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights presents, Heathcliff, one of literature’s most mysterious characters to be found in fiction. From his first appearance in the book, he comes off as a shadow of a man, brooding and dark; an angry misanthrope at best and an abusive tyrant at worst. There are moments in which the reader empathizes with Heathcliff and other times where he becomes quite irredeemable. Perhaps he is a victim of circumstance, or just a scheming interloper. Maybe a both or neither? In the same vein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula presents the formidable and perverse creature, Count Vlad Dracula. An allusion to the very real Vlad the Impaler, Dracula is a character that inspires abject fear in every way. Both iconic characters belong in the

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.

The novel I chose for my term paper is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. This novel was written during the Victorian era but is considered under the genre of Romantic literary works. The Romantic period pushed boundaries and opened up the correlation of intellect and art. This period is also known as a movement as it brought such passion and color to the minds and lives of the everyday people through the domination of imagination and feelings rather than reason and straightforward black and white rules. Some of the elements of Romantic literature include nature as a powerful spiritual influence, the presence of supernatural components, and strong passionate emotions while the Victorian era of literature almost contrasted the ideas and practices of the romantics as it strayed more towards the black and white notion of right and wrong along with the cold struggles the working people faced throughout England. Although Brontë wrote the novel in 1847 which is considered to be within the Victorian era, she used more elements within her novel that connect to the Romantic era like nature being portrayed as a strong spiritual force and this is why Wuthering Heights can also be considered a link between both time periods.

Setting: Wuthering Heights is set up with an outer frame being at Wuthering Heights with Heathcliff, Cathy, Hareton, Joseph, Nelly, and Lockwood and constantly reverts to an inner frame of the past. The main locations in which the characters interact the most is Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The location for both houses is very isolated and remote, instilling a sense of longing in the characters. The setting plays a large role in the characters’ lives and helps develop them as individuals. The harsh weather in both these locations repeatedly parallels the emotional toll faced by its inhabitants. Wuthering Heights’s original owners were the Earnshaws later taken over by Heathcliff. Thrushcross Grange was always owned by the Lintons up until Heathcliff manipulatively took ownership of the property.

Wuthering Heights is a great literary work which keeps the audience exited from the beginning till the end of the novel. Some novels are monotonous in the way they are written and lack ideas to keep the novel move forward but this novel is an exception. Author keeps the audience guessing throughout this novel and that is one of the fundamental reasons for acceptance of this book even by the audience of this generation. Wuthering Heights basically revolves around its two main characters Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff .The novel portrays the emotional and destructive love between its two central characters mentioned above. Catherine and Heathcliff's love heads to a totally different direction as we move forward in