Nelly Dean, the Narrator of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

At the center of Wuthering Heights lies a tragic vision of decay and detachment which depends completely on the severances Emily Bronte has created between characters, estates, and social statuses. Bronte reveals societal flaws that had never before been recognized during her time and creates a raw vision of Victorian life; one in which the differences between characters and their social standings outweigh their true beliefs and desires when it comes to who they choose to be, who they choose to surround themselves with, and how they choose to treat those around them. In its most distinct form, Wuthering Heights is a love story that chronicles the lives of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, regardless of the distance between them. It is

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 curious life Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights and a collection of poems, has been highly analyzed alongside those of her sisters and fellow writers, Charlotte and Anne, for decades. Born in 1818, Emily was the fifth of six children born to Patrick and Maria Bronte. Her father was curate of Haworth parsonage in Yorkshire, England, a home for local clergymen, where Emily spent nearly all of her life. The lonely parsonage offered few companions for Bronte besides her family, but included a large library which consumed her childhood. Bronte never married, and much of her later life was filled with caring for her alcoholic brother, Branwell. This solitary life and experience with Branwell seems to have heavily influenced Wuthering Heights, the only novel written by Bronte, which centers on a similar setting of isolated, lonely households and contains a heavily alcoholic character.

Catherine serves as a constant presence with every surrounding object reminding him of her and driving him to the brink of insanity. She acts as the essence of his life and Heathcliff’s passion does not prevail until he ultimately decides to join her in death. At the end of the book, Heathcliff informs Nelly about his yearning for death and on his deathbed, he moans out for Catherine (Bronte

Surprisingly, Heathcliff is absent for three years from Wuthering Heights. During that time he mysteriously obtains wealth and returns triumphantly. However, at the time of his return Catherine is already married to Edgar Linton. Heathcliff would spend the rest of his life tortured by his separation from Catherine. He becomes so obsessed that he would roam around Thrushcross Grange for days hoping to take her back or take revenge for what she has done to him. Even the day she dies, he is already so mentally deranged that he tries to unearth her body. At that moment, he feels for the first time a "sigh" that he believes to be Catherine's spirit, a presence that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Years later, he reveals to Nelly the terrible situation in which he has been living ever since. He says "she has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years - incessantly -remorselessly" (Bronte 211).  It seems that the spell is set on her deathbed when she tells him that she would haunt him for the rest of his life. At that moment Heathcliff forecasts his fate when he says:

Many people, will consider Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte to be an intense love story; kinda like Romeo and Juliet on the Yorkshire Moors. However this story is one of revenge that arises from love. ‘Wuthering Heights’ is a multi-generational Gothic romance that centres around the doomed love between Heathcliff, an orphan and Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of Heathcliff’s adopted father. Heathcliff grows in his adopted family, till he is reduced into a servant and runs away when Catherine decides to marry another. He returns later, rich and educated, to gain his revenge on the two families of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange that he believed had ruined his life. This dramatic story about passionate love, merciless hatred, violence

The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte tells a story of a man named Heathcliff, who spends his whole life fueled by jealousy, revenge, and love. As a young boy, he and a girl named Catherine spend a lot of their time together. Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine and wants to pursue a marriage with her, however Catherine has other plans. Catherine is in love with a man named Edgar, but for all the wrong reasons. Thus begins the story of Heathcliff’s revenge.

This passage illustrates not only the stark difference of demeanor between Nelly and Heathcliff, but the shift in Heathcliff’s conduct and mindset when Catherine was no longer around. The passage begins by Nelly describing how peaceful Catherine’s death was and how she hoped her afterlife would be just as peaceful. Immediately after, Heathcliff proclaims that Catherine should “wake in torment”; a stark difference to Nelly and Heathcliff’s attitude about her death. Nelly wishes her to be peaceful, but Heathcliff is so selfish that he wishes Catherine a tortured afterlife to comfort himself. The juxtaposition of the peaceful tone set by Nelly and the agony expressed by Heathcliff sets the stage for Heathcliff’s deranged manner that continues through the rest of the book.

Nelly belief about Catherine is that shes a spoiled little girl who always gets her way. she also hates her. She thinks she arrogant, even when Catherine becomes very sick, Nelly does not tell Edgar how bad her illness is. also she thinks Catherine is going to use his money and get Heathcliff to rise in the class system. However Edgar's belief about Catherine is so good mostly because he's in love with her and love is blinding. He gives her everything, money ,security and even a position.

Nelly worked as a servant at Wuthering Heights since she was a girl and grew up with Catherine so she knows her better than anybody. Mostly she likes Catherine but sometimes she does not because Catherine can be mean and she has a bad temper. Nell thinks Catherine acts like a fake. She says “Catherine was full of ambition - and this led her to adopt a double character without exactly intending to deceive any one” When Edgar said bad things about Heathcliff Catherine did not defend him. And when Heathcliff talked about Edgar she did not defend him either.

Dean is an active participant in this part of the story, and she acts on the basis of what she believes,” introducing her own ideas into established events, shaped by her ego, her own sense of moral superiority (Marsh 14). On the day that Mr. Earnshaw, Catherine and Hindley’s father, set out on his journey that would culminate in the discovery of Heathcliff, Dean recalls that she sat with Catherine and Hindley as they ate their porridge. When Mr. Earnshaw asks his children what he wants them to pick up, Nelly claims that “he promised to bring me back a pocketful of apples and pears,” for he had “a kind heart” despite the fact that “he was rather severe sometimes” (Brontë 36). In context of the story, Nelly is portraying herself as equivalent to the other two children, being worthy of eating with them. She even scored a recognition from Mr. Earnshaw, pledging to bring her back a handful of fruit; of course, this is not nearly as extravagant as the fiddle or whip requested from Hindley and Catherine, respectively, but the sentiment is still notable. However, this is exactly the type of possible white lie that, when slipped in, does nothing but help equate Nelly to the other esteemed children. Adding points like this to the story help to raise Nelly’s social standing to the levels she thinks she deserves, at least to Lockwood and the reader. Also attributed to her ego is an inflated sense of importance to the drama at Wuthering Heights. Once, over a meal just

Emily Bronte’s work Wuthering Heights can be directly connected to Emily’s life. In fact there are direct parallel connections between Emily’s family and her characters in the story. It can be concluded that Emily Bronte used her own relationships to inspire the story of her characters in Wuthering Heights. These characters share exact characteris that Emily’s family displayed throughout her life upon publication of the story. Some examples of these direct connections would be through the characters Heathcliff, Cathy Earnshaw, Nelly, and Hindley. In summary this work by Emily Bronte is a reflection of the life she lived, and can be very closely translated.

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte’, although she first published her novels under a gentleman’s name. Her famous novel has become a classic in English literature. It would be the least to say her imagination was quite impressive. Through her child imagination, Bronte’ and her siblings would write children stories. “Emily’s childhood created an imaginary nation, originating from the numerous poems devoted to the doings of the Gondals” (Bradner 129). The ‘Gondal’ poems they wrote inspired some of the fairly known novels. “The Gondals were written in her poetry as late as 1845” (Bradner 129). Wuthering Heights contains crossing genres, changing settings, multiple narrators, and unreliable narrators. Bonte’s techniques and ideals

Considering that Nelly is conveying majority of the events to Mr. Lockwood, her opinion of Catherine as an overly dramatic, childish, and arrogant girl has likely morphed in some way her version of the events. Nelly says she was being hurt by Catherine before the child shaking incident, and afterwards thinks that this is Edgar getting a glimpse of Catherine’s true nature.

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