Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The manor Wuthering Heights is described as dark and demonic. In the English moors, winter lasted three times as long as summer and the Heights and the land adjacent to it can be compared to winter, while Thrushcross Grange can be described as the summer. Bronte describes the Heights as a

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 is home to Heathcliff, Catherine, Hindley, and Nelly. Wuthering Heights gives off a more rebellious, free-spirited vibe. It has a more country feel compared to Thrushcross Grange. Wuthering Heights lacks hospitality and comfort. The people in Wuthering Heights represent more wild, rebellious characters. Heathcliff and Catherine are great examples of this free-spirited, wild, and rebellious characters in how they run off together and just the way they live their lives, especially when they were younger before Catherine married Edgar and moved to Thrushcross Grange. The characters in Wuthering Heights also represent a more middle to lower class household compared to the lavish life lived at Thrushcross Grange.

The “Wuthering Height” by Emily Bronte is a diamond in the treasures of English literature. At the beginning of the novel, it was a little sleepy and we would see some strange things in the house with Heathcliff, who was a very understanding person. However, a little chapter later, we would become increasingly drawn into the novel.

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.

Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë and is considered by many to be a straightforward and intense, love story. However, the story is truly about revenge and the ramifications of taking action on vengeful thoughts. It follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious, angry and sometimes malicious individual from childhood to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff becomes well-loved by his dad in his adopted family, however after his adopted father’s death, he is reduced to the status of a servant and runs away when the woman he loves (Catherine Earnshaw) decides to marry another man (Edgar Linton). He returns later, rich and educated, and sets about gaining his revenge on the two families that he believed ruined his life.

“It is a tale of usurpation, revenge, and a devilish, preternatural passion that tamer beings can scarcely recognize as love.” (Duclaux)

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.

“‘Wuthering’, being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive at the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather” [1]. Wuthering Heights is one of the main places were the novel is base on, is a place where you can be your own kind of people. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff who live on Wuthering Heights, were people who like to explore nature around them, they like to have fun. Because of what Wuthering is they adapt attitudes like wild and savage and were free to make anything they want. They were people who were free of the stereotypes that people can tell because of the way they act, the way they make things and the curiosity they have to explore new things. There is, Thrushcross Grange, where you have to

Is love rational? In the words of Chris de Burgh, “It’s the classical dilemma, between the head and heart.” Love can cause people to do crazy things and act in irrational ways. They think of their love first before considering the consequences. Heartbreak can also cause people to have odd behavior. “Like an addict chasing a high, someone in love might act rather odd or lose inhibitions or their sense of judgement.” (“The Head versus the Heart – Is Love Rational?) In the following novels, the characters are blinded by love and passion and it causes them to ignore rational thoughts and responsibilities and the pursuit of a happy ending leads to their eventual tragic deaths.

Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Bronte is one of the most admired and favorable written works in English literature. When the novel was published in the year 1847, it sold very poorly and only received a minimum amount of reviews. Although the novel does not contain any sexual relations or bloodshed, it is considered to be inappropriate due to its portrayal of an unconstrained love and cruelty. Wuthering Heights is formed on the Gothic tradition in the late 18th century, which consists of supernatural encounters, malformed imagery, and the effects of mystery and fear. The novel has been studied and analyzed for many years, yet it remains unexhausted as a result of its memorable powerful characters. Because of the depiction of Catherine and Heathcliff’s corrupted love, their story remains one of the most nostalgic love stories in all of literature. Also, during the Victorian Age there were some drastic changes economically, socially, and politically. So as a Victorian writer, Emily Bronte clearly distincts the difference between the wealth of middle and upper class in Wuthering Heights. The setting of the novel is mainly within the Yorkshire moors of northern England and rural areas at that time were controlled by a strict Hierarchy government. Bronte represents this accurately in the novel by entitling the Linton family as the gentry’s class and the Earnshaw family as gentlemen farmers. In Wuthering Heights, the theme of revenge takes place as a necessity after the loss

Wuthering Heights is a English novel by Emily Bronte. The main character in this novel are Heathcliff, Lockwood, Catherine, Edgar, Nelly, Joseph, Hareton, Linton, Hinley, Isabella, and young Cathy. The main character Heathcliff is influenced with the element of gothicism and romanticism. Gothicism shape Heathcliff appearance and actions. Romanticism portrays through Heathcliff passion for Catherine.

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.

Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë that was first published in 1847. It tells the story of two English families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and the interactions between them that take place over the course of two generations. The reader is first introduced to the remaining Earnshaws through the eyes of Mr. Lockwood, the new tenant of one of their estate. His first and second impressions of the Earnshaws are less than positive and, after a supernatural experience on their property, Lockwood, and thus the reader, is told the tumultuous story of his landlord’s family by Nelly Dean, his housekeeper and longtime employee of the Earnshaws and Lintons. As the story unfolds, Heathcliff, Lockwood’s landlord, emerges as one of the most fascinating and complex, and certainly the most villainous, person involved in the tragedies that occurred within the two families.

“Is Wuthering Heights as nice a place as Thrushcross Grange?” (Brontë 329). That seems to be the question quickly answered in the start of the novel, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, and the answer is very clearly: No. In Wuthering Heights, contrast between the two main and unique places, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, helps to define and separate the lifestyles of the main characters. Wuthering Heights is distinctively more dark and chaotic and is full of troubles that make it seem a much darker place, while Thrushcross Grange is a brighter and more peaceful house. Brontë is able to use the two contrasting places to help support the drastically different character personalities, whether it be troublesome Catherine or her peaceful and calmer husband, Edgar. The use of the drastically different places, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, are vital to the novel because they offer contrast in the physical houses and define the people living in them and are meaningful to the novel by providing a deep and drastic connection to each place for the reader to separate and understand the characters thoroughly.