Romantic And Romanticism In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

   "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff" (81)" These words, uttered by Catherine, in the novel Wuthering Heights are for me the starting point in my investigation into the themes of love and obsession in the novel. Catherine has just told her housekeeper that she has made up her mind to marry Edgar Linton, although she is well aware that her love for him is bound to change as time passes. That she is obsessed by her love for Heathcliff she confirms in the above quotation and by saying that she will never, ever be separated from him. Why does she not marry him then? Well, she has

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.

    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

Emily Brontë uses her novel Wuthering Heights to showcase how the constraints of one’s class, while only enforced by will, can take control over one’s autonomy and desires. Brontë accomplishes this in her depiction of the characters Catherine Earnshaw Linton and Heathcliff. Catherine begins the novel as a tomboyish girl, with no intentions of becoming a “lady” as defined by the society of her time. She only begins to want to conform to feminine roles when she is introduced to the expectations of women by the Lintons, causing her to begin to abandon her own independence in favor of conforming to societal norms. In doing so, she not only limits her own life, but spurns Heathcliff into a rage and resolution that limits his life also.

"Wuthering Heights" is a novel that written by Emily Brontë, this novel published in 1847 under the alias "Ellis Bell". The Victorians Age was a rapidly changing industrialized world. Imperial expansion impacted Victorian home. Reading was not only for pleasure at the time, but also for being in touch with the world. It was an age of empire and mass literacy, therefore the growth of industrialization rose labor prices and forced many to emigrate. In this article I will talk about " Wuthering Heights "novels, and I analysis it from different character.

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish,” said Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island. Any person can write a book, but to be able to write what you mean and affect your readers is very difficult. A writer simply can’t just drop dialogue into a character’s mouth without having any context of the dialogue. If an author has his or her character saying “I’m broke,” what does this really mean without any context? To Oprah Winfrey, being broke may mean she can’t buy a Silk Jet, a winery, or a country. To a middle- class American, being broke may mean they can’t buy a new pair of shoes that week, buy a new car, or get their hair

Everyone likes a good love story, myself included. It is no surprise, that a multitude of authors write love stories. Books with other plots, often, have love stories hidden in them. Love stories are often dramatic, romantic, and intriguing. These characteristics are displayed in Wuthering Heights by way of a love triangle. To better understand the love triangle portrayed in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, one should analyze Brontë’s life and early works, the childhood of Catherine, Heathcliff, and Hindley, and the personalities Catherine and Heathcliff.

The Romantic Movement lasted from the second half of the eighteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century. The Romantic Era has a great effect on people in all aspects, such as art, literature, and music. Romanticism began in Germany and France, and after that it spread through Europe, and finally America. However, romanticism is not about love and romance, it is about all the emotions and feelings a person feels throughout his or her whole life. People used it as a way of escapism from their tough lives. There are many authors of the Romantic Era and one of them is Emily Brontë; her greatest and well-known work is Wuthering Heights. The novel demonstrates characteristics of the Romantic Era and this important literary movement has affected the novel.

“Wuthering Heights” was written in Victorian Age when the literary trend was in concerned with the urban life. The novel was much discussed in the literary circles and was appreciated for its extraordinary themes. Bronte’s work neither belongs to the gothic tradition or to the anterior romantic and nor it was a product of the age. This paper will offer a complete analysis on Emily Bronte’s novel “Wuthering Heights” throwing light upon the extraordinary sadism which underlines Bronte’s view on emotional relationships and also the significance of her preoccupation with infanticide. The novel is full of ghost and spirits from the beginning to the

Wuthering Heights, the gothic novel by Emily Bronte, introduces us to two neighbouring families living on the moors of Yorkshire. The remote setting sets a cold, windy, dark vision which infiltrates the perspective households of the Earnshaws of Wuthering Heights and the Linton’s of Thrushcross Grange. The setting of Bronte’s novel is the wild, untamed moors of her birthplace. Emily Bronte brings her own personality and essence to Wuthering Heights, which is contrary to those of her sisters’, Anne and Charlotte. Emily Bronte’s love for the outdoors and in particular the Yorkshire moors, as well as her “unusual and extremely unsocial and reserved” character is identifiable in Heathcliff, the main character (Wuthering-heights.co.uk 2014). Also weaving its way through the novel is her unconventional religious beliefs. The incorporation of the supernatural and gothic references defies her family upbringing.

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.

Unlike Lord Byron, Emily Brontë hasn’t met an overnight success after publishing her only novel, Wuthering Heights. As a matter of fact, in the beginning, it was said to be “excessively morbid and violent” (138). It wasn’t until later that Ward was “praising Emily's masterly fusion of romance and realism” (138). Although Wuthering Heights was Emily Brontë’s only novel, it allowed her not to be forgotten even after so many years. The novel was written during the Romanticism, a time mostly concerned with the conflict between nature and society, usually about how society corrupts the nature. Heathcliff most certainly is a representative of nature rather than society, even his name is connected to nature. Heathcliff could be considered a savage, as he wasn’t touched by

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)

Romance, drama: these terms that feature in the earliest reviews of the novel signal that the generic make-up of Wuthering heights was at issue from the start. Wuthering heights from is often described as a hybrid and crossover novel. A crossover novel and Hybrid novels are novels which cross the boundaries between literary genres, such as break down the boundaries between fiction, poetry, and drama (Christin, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Narrative Theory, p.227). Wuthering heights draws on numerous literary genres, but the following will concentrate on the interaction of realism and romance within the novel.