The Depth of 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

Heathcliff cried vehemently, "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" Emily Brontë distorts many common elements in Wuthering Heights   to enhance the quality of her book. One of the distortions is Heathcliff's undying love for Catherine Earnshaw. Also, Brontë perverts the vindictive hatred that fills and runs Heathcliff's life after he loses Catherine. Finally, she prolongs death, making it even more distressing and insufferable.

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.

Morality is one of the most prevalent themes in Wuthering Heights. Morality, in the context of this novel, means ethical behaviors. Thus, in order to tell whether the ethical behaviors are apparent in this novel, an analysis on the characters’ behaviors is important to be made in order to come to a conclusion. In Wuthering Heights, there are many events that relate to hatred, resentment and the desire to revenge and cause pain and sufferings to the others. These unethical behaviors, the reader can immediately relate to the protagonist of the novel, Heathcliff. As Nelly begins her storytelling in chapter four, readers immediately feel sympathy for Heathcliff from the moment he is first introduced to her story, because of his innocence of being

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.

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.

Wuthering Heights: An Ever Lasting Love Emily Bronte takes romance to a darker side in her gothic novel Wuthering Heights. She develops a relationship between the characters and the setting which further reveal her central themes and conveys her idea. Bronte’s work of art makes an attempt to argue that social class has the power to be a deciding factor in who one chooses to love.

In chapters 1-10, Nelly appears to not have a single nice thing to say about Catherine, focusing on recounting how rude and haughty she was. She describes her as a "thorn" being embraced by "honeysuckles" (Edgar and Isabella being the honeysuckles) in the quote, “It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn” (10. 23). In Nelly’s opinion, she frequently cries in order to keep her family and friends “emotionally hostage”, yet Catherine seems to be fond of Nelly, and confides her deepest feelings and secrets to her. Catherine thinks Nelly is her friend, and trusts her, but Nelly truly despises her. Her talk of Catherine leaves a very negative impression of her on Lockwood, who at one point says, "I marveled much how he, (Edgar Linton) with a mind to correspond with his person, could fancy my idea of Catherine Earnshaw" (8. 50). The reason this is said is because Catherine is not alive to defend herself, or to tell her side of the story. She's not alive for Lockwood to see for himself what type of person she was and only has Nelly's word to go on. She is the one who knows the true wild side of Catherine in the Earnshaw residence and becomes annoyed with the double personality she develops after staying at the Linton

Catherine’s action, “How lightly she dismisses her old playmate’s troubles. I could not have imagined her to be so selfish,” (Bronte 53). In concluding her session with Lockwood in chapter seven Nelly finishes by declaring, “I have read more than you would fancy, Mr. Lockwood. You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of also… However, if I am to follow my story in true gossip’s fashion, I had better go on,” (Bronte 56). Bronte’s decision to add this detail to Nelly’s character emphasizes her action to tell the story in “true gossip’s fashion.” Further, the scene also suggests that Nelly enjoys stories, and therefore, enjoys romanticizing or actively imagining ideas for her perspective of

When someone turns traitor, his or her character is called into question. The character is re-evaluated. Opinions about the character change. The story becomes more gripping as bridges are burned between former friends now turned foes. The act of betrayal can be inflicted upon one’s self or others, but the bottomline is that someone, whoever he or she may be, is always affected.

Love is a strong attachment between two lovers and revenge is a strong conflict between two rivals. In the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses setting to establish contrast, to intensify conflict, and to develop character. The people and events of Wuthering Heights share a dramatic conflict. Thus, Bronte focuses on the evil eye of Heathcliff's obsessive and perpetual love with Catherine, and his enduring revenge to those who forced him and Catherine apart. The author expresses the conflict of Wuthering Heights with great intensity. Hence, she portrays a combination of crucial issues of romance and money, hate and power, and lastly

Where some have looked back to the past, while some have constantly gazed at the present condition and texture of life, and some have preferred to look beyond the past and the present to the state of life in future. Life is a bouquet of moments and every moment is a moment of discovery. Likewise Wuthering Heights is not just a love story; it is a window into the human soul, where one sees the loss, suffering, self discovery, and triumph of the characters in this novel. Catherine and Heathcliff’s passionate nature, intolerable frustration, and overwhelming loss have ruined them, and thus stripped them of their

In addition, to better understand the book, you first have to get an overview of the author. Emily Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England, the third child of the Reverend Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell Bronte. Emily and her sisters—entertained themselves by reading Shakespeare, Milton, Virgil and the Bible. As well as playing on the Yorkshire moors were they dreamed up fanciful, fabled worlds, creating a constant stream of tales, such as the Young Men plays (1826) and Our Fellows

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

Although certainly unjust and arguably immoral, assigned gender roles have permeated history and its literature for centuries. Authors have penned the injustice of such gender roles throughout their works, although it was simply a part of life to them at the time. One such author is Emily Brontë, a woman who never married. She and her sisters experienced many familial hardships and began writing at a young age, perhaps as a coping mechanism. With this in mind and assessing trials and events in her life, one cannot help but find uncanny parallels between the characters of her novels and the social turmoil she witnessed. At first glance, Brontë’s Wuthering Heights may seem to be the tragedy of two young lovers. However, the reader cannot truly comprehend or explain Catherine’s decision to marry Edgar, as opposed to Heathcliff, without first understanding the period in which Brontë set her novel. The Victorian era, although positive in a scientific sense, was a brutal period for women, a “world of sadism, violence, and wanton cruelty” (Thompson 71). It perpetuated ideals such as specified gender roles, primogeniture, and the belief that women are property, without a societal voice. As a woman, Brontë experienced this discrimination firsthand as she was forced to initially publish her work under a male pseudonym, Ellis Bell, in order for it to have any societal merit. Her characters in Wuthering Heights were thusly affected by this cloud of sexism. The woman in the