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The manor Wuthering Heights is described as dark and demonic. In the English moors, winter lasted three times as long as summer and the Heights and the land adjacent to it can be compared to winter, while Thrushcross Grange can be described as the summer. Bronte describes the Heights as a

It is worth, therefore, noticing the significant difference in the two major properties in the novel. Working class people inhabited Wuthering Heights, while Thrushcross Grange was inhabited by those higher on the social ladder. When Heathcliff and Catherine “peek” through their window, it shows that they aspire to be on the same level, socially. Heathcliff aquires both and this symbolises his character. He has the façade of a “gentleman” of high social rank, but has the “gypsy” like demeanour. Heathcliff resides at Wuthering Heights, a place that is constantly bombarded by the “north wind”. This stormy surround can often emulate Heathcliff’s emotional anger at the betrayal of his beloved Cathy. Heathcliff represents a typical protagonist of the Romance genre at the time; internalised in his emotions and lonely but there is hope that he will ultimately becomes much more of a typical hero with the experience of love. Heathcliff, however, as much as the reader wants him to, never becomes this typical hero and has much the adverse effect from love.

The novel’s title Wuthering Heights is known by the text as “the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling” (Brontë 4). The adjective “wuthering” appears to illustrate the environment (literally and figuratively). Literally, it is “descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed, in stormy weather” (Brontë 4). This further explains that figurative meaning of the title, suggesting and foreshadowing much chaos and conflicts, adding a gloomy tone and bleak image, which are main characteristics of gothic novels.

Through her family’s wealth, she has a very high social status. She is childhood friends with Heathcliff as they both enjoy being with each other. Her relationship with Heathcliff comes to an abruptly halt when she stays with the Linton’s for her heel to heal. While she is there, she underwent training to be lady like for the era she is in. Her love grows for Edgar while she is at the Earnshaw’s. Catherine comes to grasp she couldn’t marry Heathcliff as it would be degrading herself. “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am” (81). Even though she feels like Heathcliff is her star crossed lover, her pride stops her from loving Heathcliff so she has to marry

The atmosphere around Wuthering Heights is bleak and gloomy, kinda how it looks right before it storms outside. The intimidating look of Wuthering Heights represents the hostility of Heathcliff and his inability to welcome others into his dwelling. Not only does the look of

Earnshaw brings home an orphan boy named Heathcliff, to live at Wuthering Heights with his son, Hindley, and his daughter, Catherine. Catherine and Heathcliff immediately form their unbreakable love for each other. Soon a love triangle develops when Catherine spends five weeks over at the Lintons, due to an injury with their dog, where she starts to have feelings for their son, Edgar. Of course, both confessing their love for Catherine, sparks a fire between the two boys. Heathcliff and Edgar are perfect foils for one another – opposite in just about every way. To use a cliché, they are like night and day. Edgar is a well-dressed, educated, but a cowardly man while Heathcliff is dark, uneducated, and seemingly full of rough edges. Even Nelly, the servant, saw the sharpening differences, but also knows Catherine is aware of it too saying, “Doubtless Catherine marked the difference between her friends as one came in, and the other went out. The contrast resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country, for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect,” (70). The fact that they are buried on either side of Catherine really drives their dedicated love to the very

"He [Heathcliff] is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees-my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath-a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff-he's always, always in my mind-not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself-but, as my own being."

I think that the fact that Wuthering Heights is so secluded leaves an eery mood with the reader, especially after reading the first few chapters. It definitely adds to the mood of the story in a way that nothing else could. I think that the setting was one of the things that really drew me into the story at the start, and made me, as the reader, want to keep reading. A time when the setting was most prominent was in the very beginning of the story, when Lockwood (the narrator) was at the estate, and it began to snow storm extremely hard. It was apparent that this time in the story was near Christmas, and although the setting was secluded and Linton could not get home in the disaster

As represented in Catherine Earnshaw’s early characterization, the social and cultural ideals of the time period are heavily reinforced through Catherine’s defiant individualism and love for the initially lowly Heathcliff, which contrasts with the civility and propriety of the people around her. Despite being set solely in the Yorkshire Moors in England, the delicate social hierarchy of class is clearly seen in the residents of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, in which Wuthering Heights lacks the class, refinement, and civilization of the latter. Despite the era’s social expectations of women as submissive and demure individuals expected to marry into a wealthy family, Catherine rejects these very standards through her fierce love for Heathcliff

With this unusually leading statement, Catherine Earnshaw is able to profess her love for Heathcliff, the outcast and rugged villain of the novel Wuthering Heights. Being separated from Heathcliff, deadens Catherine’s soul. Since they both experience many things together in their childhood, they have become so related to each other, that even their thoughts and souls have been shaped in the same way and they have become a fussed oneness now. When she compares her love for Heathcliff with that for Edgar she externalizes her love for Heathcliff when she claims that her love towards him resembles ‘the rocks beneath’, whereas her love for Edgar is like ‘the foliage in the wood, that time will change it’. Here Catherine speaks not of soul, but of

The gothic novel “Wuthering Heights” narrates the story of love and passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Love is one of the main themes that the novel basis’s around, and how this opposed passion between the two main characters ultimately demolishes themselves and all that are around them. Here we are shown the extremities of the emotions that are tied up within the characters presented with contrasts in behaviour. These extremities and contrasts can be suggested by the name of the novel itself, as “Wuthering” which defines as blustery and stormy implies that occasionally,

Many authors use the setting of a novel to illuminate certain values and principles in their writing. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte utilizes this technique to enhance the theme of the work. The novel is set in a harsh environment in Northern England, highlighting two specific estates, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, as the main places of action. The dreary landscape and houses not only serve as the primary setting, but also as major symbols that aide in establishing the tone and enhancing the novel's theme of good versus evil.

It had, “.... a few stunted firs at the end of the house….” and, “the corners defended with large jutting stones” (Brontë 4). The ruins of Wuthering Heights made the household seem less noble and respected. A ruined home and structure compared them to the winsome Thrushcross Grange. The differences of the houses amplified the difference in class, stature, and ways of life. The ruins of Wuthering Heights made those living there have a different mindset and look as if they couldn’t reach the Thrushcross standards. Also, those who lived at Wuthering Heights had a much different attitude, this because Wuthering Heights nurtures those into whom they become. For instance, Catherine, after leaving Wuthering Heights came back Nelly describes her as, “ a very dignified person….” as opposed to, “a wild, hatless little savage” (Brontё 52). Her time at the ruined Wuthering Heights made her into a ruined and hateful girl herself. If Wuthering Heights resembled that of Thrushcross Grange then there would not be a shift in Catherine’s or anyone's character. In fact, the novel wouldn’t have a difference between the two settings, making both households equal.

The story of Wuthering Heights is set in two primary locations: Wuthering Heights itself, and the neighboring property of Thrushcross Grange. All of the major events in the novel occur in or around these two properties, with the exception of short instances where characters visit the village of Gimmerton, fourteen miles away. The primary setting, Wuthering Heights, is described as being ‘strong…(with) narrow windows set…deeply in the wall; and corners defended with large, jutting stones’ (Bronte, p.4) to protect the structure against the area’s severe weather. It’s neighboring property, Thrushcross Grange, lies four miles away; the Grange is not described in the first two chapters except to note that it is the property which the primary narrator, Lockwood, intends to rent from its owner, Heathcliff.

Throughout the first key bit of the book I discovered many things. I learned that Wuthering Heights is actually the name of Mr. Heathcliff, a man who began his life as an orphan, his dwelling. Also, the house has well installed luxury items all around the house. My expectations of the novel, written by Emily Bronte, are to be a love story that develops of time. Another conclusion I drew from reading the first part of the book, is that the book will have similarities to events that have occurred in the past in the United States. As I have read so far, I have learned about a few of the major characters included in the novel. My first impressions of the author, is that she is very chronologically organized. The events through the book seem to all be in a sequence that lead up to a major problem.