The Romantic Era Of Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë was born on July 30, 1818 and died December 19 , 1848 which made her 30 years old at death. Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) was born in Thornton, Yorkshire. Her father, Patrick Brontë, married Maria Branwell of Penzance in 1812, and by 1820 (2), when he moved to Haworth in Yorkshire as rector, there were six children : Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne.(Adnax Publications). Within that thirty years Emily lived a very interesting life. Emily lost her mother when she was really to cancer. Then later on Emily and her sisters attended Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge because their father was a clergyman. Maria and Elizabeth Brontë which were Emily's sisters passed away from tuberculosis. Emily taught at Law Hill School and lastly published her own novel. {{Do not just list information. State a thesis and preview three main ideas.}}

   "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.

The root cause of all actions and behaviour of a person can be found through an in depth psychological analysis. Even in literature, a well-written character often demonstrates a complex psychological profile. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is rich with such troubled characters. Heathcliff is a perfect example of the theories of early childhood development; his inability to resolve fundamental conflicts in childhood impedes his social and moral development as he ages. Analysis of Heathcliff’s behaviour also reveals many key signs that Heathcliff suffers from an antisocial personality disorder. Finally, psychology also explains why Heathcliff develops such an intense attraction to Catherine. Heathcliff’s psychological profile is complex, involving stunted development, personality disorders, and even attraction theory.

Emily Jane Bronte was born July 30th, 1818 in the small village of Thornton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was the fifth of the six children of Patrick Bronte & Maria Branwell Bronte. She had three older sisters Charlotte, Elizabeth, & Maria, & also had a older brother named Branwell & a younger sister named Anne.

“We love with a love that was more than love” stated by a famous poet by the name of Edgar Allen Poe. True love can appear deeper than the surface. Repeatedly humans confide in their brain on who they are “infatuated” and make decisions based upon that. Emily Bronte depicts this well in her outstanding novel “Wuthering Heights.” In the story, two characters by the name of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw are constantly yearning for each throughout the novel but under certain circumstances can be wed together. As an adopted child, Heathcliff comes into the family and attaches himself to Catherine. However, another character by the name of Edgar Linton, similarly loves Catherine but is the complete contrast of Heathcliff. Coming from a well-off family, Linton is almost a picture perfect of what society wants in a male being wealthy, respectful, and highly intelligent. On the other hand, Heathcliff is a poor, uncivilized, and simple-minded child. Bronte indicates in her narrative in a “what-if” situation based on the love between them both. Creating scenario, she creates a blurry line in between wrong and right choice for love. Nonetheless, “logical choice” is not always the correct choice nor is it a clear-cut choice. The author asks a question of “If it is a choice between the rational and true love, which do you chose?” Because of this, Bronte makes readers

In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, many implications of motifs are placed within the book. One of the more noticeable motifs Bronte implemented throughout the novel is the cold and wintery weather. The motif use of cold is commonly used to set a theme of death and cruelty. In this novel, Bronte uses the motif of coldness and snow to represent suffering and death. Throughout the novel, Bronte uses this motif to express the theme of suffering throughout the property of Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff is associated with evil and darkness from the beginning of the novel. "I felt his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows." (1) When Lockwood sees Heathcliff's garden (perhaps a symbol for Heathcliff) "the earth was hard with a black frost…the air made me shiver through every limb." (6)

Emily Bronte is a British author of Thornton United Kingdom, England was born in July 30, 1818; Famous for her only novel Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte’s common themes in her writing Emily's poems are used to interpret her novel, particularly those poems discussing isolation, rebellion, and freedom.

Is the result of true love a disconcerting relationship or a haunting? In Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, this appears to be the case. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s affectionate love towards one another did not end like those in fairy tales. These two characters were torn apart by life’s mishaps including abuse by Catherin’s older brother, Hindley, to unrequited marriage between Catherine and Edgar Linton. In addition, the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff was not approved of by many people: Hindley loathed Heathcliff because of Mr. Earnshaw’s unexpected act of kindness towards the orphan boy, and Catherine’s husband, Edgar, shared a strong disapproval of their relationship. This hatred meant these true lovers barely spent time together. When Catherine passed away, her ghost remained on Earth waiting for Heathcliff. Thus, the ghosts symbolize the love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, the lovers that never loved.

Consider the reason why the gothic style of literature and the arts has been culturally relevant ever since its precedent-setting works. It is that gothic literature tells the audience exactly what they do not want to hear about themselves. Most gothic artists/authors are brutally honest in how they depict human nature: greedy, sinister, and above all, hopeless. This essential element of gothic, with the inclusion of the supernatural, takes the main stage in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. This story of romance, mystery, and violence is not only the epitome of the gothic novel, but also a social commentary that rings true for the human race in its entirety. In a sense, Wuthering Heights is a true story, not because the characters and events are factual, but because Brontë writes the story in a way that the truth is left up to the reader. She utilizes several devices that are repeated throughout the novel to achieve this. One which is ever-present is the use of multiple lenses on the story. The fact that the story is told from several unreliable, biased narrators as opposed to Brontë herself offers the reader a story in the same way one would receive a real-world story. Another device Brontë uses is the repetition imagery of Wuthering Heights as a three way battlefield dividing heaven, hell, and the earth. The christian imagery, especially those which closely align Heathcliff with John Milton’s Byronic Satan in Paradise Lost, demonstrate a human consciousness that

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

In essence, “Emily Brontë was born at her father’s parsonage in Thornton, near, Bradford, in Yorkshire, on July 30,1818, the fifth of six children born to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell in seven years” (Benvenuto 2). “Emily Brontë, like her sister, inherited Celtic blood, together with a stern and stoical tradition of daily life” (Winnifrith 119). “She was a wayward, imaginative girl, physically delicate, brought up in loneliness and poverty, amid a harsh yet noble landscape of hill, moor and stream” (Winnifrith 119). “… The Brontë household was mainly kept in touch with the current literature, the criticism, poetry, and fiction of their day” (Winnifrith 119). Furthermore, “All of the Brontës learned to write in the same minute hand, by which they could cover a small page with hundreds of words and keep their writing secret—later a consideration of greater importance to Emily” (Benvenuto 6). The Brontë children wrote together and had their own roles in the works of literature they composed. Emily and her sister, Anne decided to write their own story with a “fantasy world” after their Brother Branwell allowed them to give him ideas for his own story but did not include them in writing it (Benvenuto 6). The sisters’ story was “…a saga centered on an imaginary island in the north Pacific, called Gondal” (Benvenuto 6). “Gondal appears in the earliest piece of writing from Bronte that we have, a diary entry dated November 24, 1834, when she was sixteen years old” (Benvenuto 6). Accordingly, “We have seen that Emily Brontë spent the greater part of her adult life absorbed in her story about Gondal and its people” (Benvenuto 25). “The notebook which she called

Emily Bronte was born on July 30 th , 1818 in Yorkshire, England; she was the fifth child born out of six, she had 4 sisters (Charlotte, Elizabeth, Maria, and Anne) and a brother (Patrick). When Emily was just three years old she had to deal with a traumatic experience, her mother had died of cancer. When her mother died it was important to have a female figure in the children’s life so her