Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte

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

Wuthering Heights is a novel which deviates from the standard of Victorian literature. The novels of the Victorian Era were often works of social criticism. They generally had a moral purpose and promoted ideals of love and brotherhood. Wuthering Heights is more of a Victorian Gothic novel; it contains passion, violence, and supernatural elements (Mitchell 119). The world of Wuthering Heights seems to be a world without morals. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë does not idealize love; she presents it realistically, with all its faults and merits. She shows that love is a powerful force which can be destructive or redemptive. Heathcliff has an all-consuming passion for Catherine. When she chooses to marry Edgar, his spurned love turns into a

After many years of working as a teacher Emily Brontë and her sisters, Charlette and Anne, made a significant contribution to British literature. Out of the three sisters, Charlette was the first one to become famous for her novel “Jane Eyre” (Emily Brontë). But shortly after, the novel, “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë made an bigger contribution to British literature. However, in 1847 when she wrote this novel during the Victorian Era she published her book under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell since she thought people would take her more serious as a male writer (Emily Brontë). She even brought a change in the England society and lifestyle as well as a change to Victorian literature ere. The novel “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë

Presently, society is constructed in such a way that the upper class and the lower class cannot work to change places unless they are extremely fortunate. The ladder of society has always existed in this manner, and many authors have chosen to explore what pushing the constraints of a set society will do. In Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Brontë, the social constraints of the community in which the characters live, are constantly being pushed as the characters change social classes, through marriage and hard work, and in the treatment of other characters. The actions are often motivated by a superficial impression; many interactions between the characters are based on the influence of social classes, and the changes that shift the characters from one social class to another which Brontë occurs as an overlaying theme in the story. Brontë illustrates the differences in the classes using the literary devices of imagery, symbols, dialogue, and irony. A change in the social class for a certain character leads to a change in the interactions with that character.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte was published in 1847 and received many contradictory judgements. One main judgement that criticized the novel was how multiple characters can have a change in characterization depending on the reader. Many of the novel's characters, such as Heathcliff, possess positive values, but readers tend to focus on their negative qualities which allows these characters to change. Growing up poor and homeless, Heathcliff’s character changes many times throughout the novel as he grows older and possess negative qualities towards other characters. Later residing as an old, lonely master, Heathcliff’s change in character at the end of Wuthering Heights signifies that he has gone mad and leads to intentions that Heathcliff has not committed suicide, but lost all will after all he has been through.

    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

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

Wuthering Heights was written during the Victorian Era, which was the time period ruled by Queen Victoria. This time period was seen as very “prudish, hypocritical, stuffy, and narrow- minded” (Kirschen 1). While this time period did carry some harsh and negative characteristics, they are not completely accurate. The Victorian Era was very socially strict, but there was also a strong artistic movement. Writers and artists had a lot of creative freedom during this time period and most of their works were highly sought after (Kirschen 1). Literature in this era was very connected to the Romantic period and played upon imagination, emotion, and self-reflection, but also played upon a Neo-Classical or traditional approach of what was publically acceptable (Roth 1). People were very power hungry during this portion of time (Kirschen 1). This allowed literature to create allegorical themes that represented society during this era of literature (Roth 3).

Emily, Anne, and Charlotte took on aliases upon seeing how women were not given a fair chance in publishing works (Paddock 10). They later published a small collection of poems titles Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell in 1846, though it was not very popular among the people of England and “garnered little attention” (Emily Brontë Biography). While Branwell continued to paint and write poetry before he later died, Charlotte had penned Jane Eyre in 1846, Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1853. It was not until after her death that The Professor was published in 1857. Emily’s novel Wuthering Heights was later published in 1847 while Anne’s accomplishments included Agnes Grey in 1847 and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848 (“The Bronte Sisters Biography”). Charlotte gained immediate success for her disputable criticism of society’s treatment of impoverished women (“Charlotte Brontë Biography”). However, Emily and Anne’s works only became renown posthumously, receiving critical acclaim for Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey following their deaths in 1848 and 1849 (“Emily Brontë Biography”). To this day, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë remain eminent (Winnifrith 24), creating immense fascination with their imaginative drawings, paintings, poems, novels, and other works of

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.

Brontë is best known for her novel, Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. For this novel she went by the pseudonym Ellis Bell. The novel goes through the life

Myer also suggests that Heathcliff progressively escapes the boundaries of the metaphor which provides him with a ‘fully realised status’ (p.107). This is as Wuthering Heights main focus revolves around the position of the dark character thus, towards the end of the novel Heathcliff becomes a paradox and the novels “most horrific oppressor of woman’ (p.107). The novel exceeds the metaphor so much that is virtually loses interest with the oppression of woman, illustrating Heathcliff’s rage is a literal response to the oppression of the racial other. Myer concludes that this metaphorical link between white woman and people of colour takes on a life of its own, as it moves beyond its original function in clarifying the crippling effect of social constraints placed on British women, to a focus on anti-imperialism and the mistreatment of the ‘dark races’

Vengeance at Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, includes character with vengeful motivations during two generations of conflict. The novel exhibits vengeance by Heathcliff towards several people, but his main motives are towards Edgar Linton, who married Catherine Linton, when Heathcliff loved Catherine. Mr. Heathcliff’s evolving vengeance started with Hindley Earnshaw, Catherine’s brother. Edgar Linton despised Heathcliff due to talking harsh to his wife and his daughter. While there are several conflicts in the story, the main conflict is the rivalry between Heathcliff and Edgar Linton.

Bette Davis said, “When a man gives his opinion, he 's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she 's a bitch.” Feminism was always looked at as women fighting for the same rights that men have always had. A lack of feminism is just the opposite. Someone losing their femininity by allowing themselves to conform to men, to break the bond every women has gone through to break the barriers. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Catherine shows her flaw in femininity over how her conformity to every man to show society 's 'norm ', her quest for money and not love, and she is foolish for thinking men can rule her life.

The gothic and often disturbing Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte’s classic novel that contains undeniably powerful writing that created her timeless love story. Andrea Arnold transformed her masterpiece into a cinematic rendition to recreate the wild and passionate story of the deep and destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.