Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Heathcliff’s strong love for Catherine guides his transformation as a character. While Heathcliff enters the story as an innocent child, the abuse he receives at a young age and his heartbreak at Catherine’s choice to marry Edgar Linton bring about a change within him. Heathcliff’s adulthood is consequently marked by jealousy and greed due to his separation from Catherine, along with manipulation and a deep desire to seek revenge on Edgar. Although Heathcliff uses deceit and manipulation to his advantage throughout the novel, he is never entirely content in his current situation. As Heathcliff attempts to revenge Edgar Linton, he does not gain true fulfillment. Throughout Wuthering Heights, Brontë uses Heathcliff’s vengeful actions to convey the message that manipulative and revenge-seeking behaviors will not bring a person satisfaction.

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

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights display of cultural and physical features of an environment affecting one’s character and moral traits is showcased through the first Catherine’s development throughout the novel. Catherine is forced to “adopt a double character”, as she lives as a rebellious, passionate woman on the turbulent Wuthering Heights, while behaving politely and courtly on the elegant Thrushcross Grange(Bronte, 48). Each of these environments also contains a love interest of Catherine’s, each man parallel with the characteristics of their environments: Heathcliff, the passionate and destructive, residing in Wuthering Heights, while the civilized and gentle Edgar inhabits Thrushcross Grange. Catherine’s development in character due to her setting significantly contributes to the theme that pursuing passionate love is dangerous, such as the love shared by Heathcliff and Catherine.

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, 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.

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.

Primogeniture in 18th and 19th century England stemmed from the patriarchal structure within society and families. Married women did not have status outside that of their husbands. Husbands had legal and domestic agency over their wives and their household. Women were expected to submit to their husband’s wishes, and could not vote, own or control property. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë examines these elements of 18th and 19th century English society with examples of relationships in which women were treated as the property of men, and how as a result, women were denied the legal status to own and have agency over property.

The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë contains many theme and one of them is violence. As an example of that, I will use two excerpts of Wuthering Heights, the first one from Chapter 4, “’See here wife! […] though hardness, not gentleness, made him give little trouble” (Brontë, P. 25 – 27), the second one from Chapter 20, “‘Hallo, Nelly!’ cried Mr Hethcliff, when he saw me. […] und what wer gooid enough fur him’s gooid enough fur yah, Aw’s rather think!’“ (Brontë, P. 150 – 152). Both times, the protagonist Heathcliff plays an important role in the presented violence. However, it is a contrasting role in each of the passages. Additional to that, the theme of violence in the two extracts is executed primarily in the form of verbal

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

Emily Bronte grew up in an oppressive society, being forced to learn in her own home and dealing with the deaths in her family, she felt the need to take control. In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, emphasis on the mistreatment of woman and the issue of control present themselves symbiotically. In the novel, the main female Catherine and the main character Heathcliff simultaneously unleash their darkest inner conflicts through various displays. Throughout the novel, it is evident that there exists a negative light on women when they are portrayed as immature, childish, and overly dramatic. The novel seems to reveal the repression of woman and control in male-dominated society. Ms. Bronte clearly expresses her personal opinion on feminism

Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bronte is a story about love and tragedy. This can be compared to Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare which also shows the true devotion of two people to each other. Both the story of Romeo and Juliet, and Healthcliff and Catherine are filled with the harsh truth about the reality of love. It is through this affection, that both pairs of lovers will discover sorrow in the end.

In “Wuthering Heights” Emily Bronte vividly present the main character, Heathcliff, as misanthropist after he suffers abuse, degradation, and loses his beloved Catherine. Heathcliff, a black, orphan gipsy child, is brought to live in upper-class society by Mr. Earnshaw’s generosity. Heathcliff is an outcast in his new society. Thus, Heathcliff’s temperament is depicted in “Wuthering Heights” as cruel, abusive, and vindictive against those who humiliated and not accepted him in society.

The Bronte Sisters, undisputable female voices in the Victorian period, built unbreakable embankments against the patriarchal flow, paved the way for the free flow of matriarchy and establishes gender equality and above all sets stage for humanity through their works. Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre and Anne Bronte wrote Agnes Grey. They wrote these novels based on their own experiences and close observation of life and conditions of women in male dominated society. Their works of fiction depict the saga of women’s struggle (for identity, equality and existence) of nineteenth century England and contain elements of feminism. To raise female voices( subaltern voices), against the male dominated society was unthinkable(taboo) during that period. Freedom, equality, emancipation were foreign to the women of Victorian England. Against this gender discrimination the Bronte Sisters challenged the male authority through their female protagonists, the role model for women’s emancipation and gender equality, Catherine, Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey. Freedom does not come easily. Women cannot wait for social revolution to alter the patriarchal social pattern in a day; rather every individual will have to participate in unmasking male domination by asserting herself. It is unjust to categorize people based on sex gender discrimination, that are purely biological and cultural connotation, consciously created by male dominated society to suppress and

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is a novel written in 1847. The novel is about love, obsession, social status, and how if we give into hatred it can consume us.

The story, “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte, is a tale that surrounds vengeance, social divide, and most important love. The story also shows how far an individual will go in order to get what they desire whether it is good or bad. Bronte does a splendid job in creating complex characters that can shock the audience yet maintain a level of understanding between them. The character Heathcliff displays a prime example of a complex character that the audience would think twice on. The actions displayed by Heathcliff can be certainly seen as evil however, due to his presentation from the beginning as an innocent child who suffered to a cold cruel man in the end invokes the audience with a great sense of understanding and sympathetic response.