Ancient omens and Prophecies
An omen is a technique used by writers to foretell the future, an omen is another way of foreshadowing. It provides hints throughout the text giving the readers signs or clues as to what might happen in the future for a character or in the plotens. The characters are connected to some ancient prophecies that are obscure, partial and confusing; and all along the plot unexplained incidents keep taking place to make these dreadful prophecies come true. The characters may come across various omens, in the form of dreams, visions, or signs and phenomenon indicating of some future event.
Halfway into the novel, housekeeper Ellen (Nelly) Dean sees the phantom of her childhood companion and Catherine's brother, Hindley …show more content…
For example something like rain stands for something like sorrow. In the gothic novels, the metonymies for “gloom and doom” all suggest an element of mystery, danger, or the supernatural. Wuthering Heights is a metonymy because often in literature storms are frequently associated with conflict, unhappiness, troublesome times, etc. Thus, the stormy weather is representing what is occurring to Wuthering Heights, or rather the people residing at Wuthering Heights. The characters residing at Wuthering Heights are incessantly unhappy; they are facing conflict and troubling times, and mostly because of the owner of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff. This metonymy that Emily Bronte uses is quite powerful because from the very beginning of the novel, it provides implications as to the nature of Wuthering Heights (the setting) as well as perhaps the tone that the novel will have through its entirety. Wuthering Heights, in fact, is a symbol of the ‘atmospheric tumult’ which is the dominant force in the world of the book: a wild destructive force twisting the lives of everyone exposed to
An omen is a technique used by writers to foretell the future, an omen is another way of foreshadowing. It provides hints throughout the text giving the readers signs or clues as to what might happen in the future for a character or in the plotens. The characters are connected to some ancient prophecies that are obscure, partial and confusing; and all along the plot unexplained incidents keep taking place to make these dreadful prophecies come true. The characters may come across various omens, in the form of dreams, visions, or signs and phenomenon indicating of some future event.
Halfway into the novel, housekeeper Ellen (Nelly) Dean sees the phantom of her childhood companion and Catherine's brother, Hindley …show more content…
For example something like rain stands for something like sorrow. In the gothic novels, the metonymies for “gloom and doom” all suggest an element of mystery, danger, or the supernatural. Wuthering Heights is a metonymy because often in literature storms are frequently associated with conflict, unhappiness, troublesome times, etc. Thus, the stormy weather is representing what is occurring to Wuthering Heights, or rather the people residing at Wuthering Heights. The characters residing at Wuthering Heights are incessantly unhappy; they are facing conflict and troubling times, and mostly because of the owner of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff. This metonymy that Emily Bronte uses is quite powerful because from the very beginning of the novel, it provides implications as to the nature of Wuthering Heights (the setting) as well as perhaps the tone that the novel will have through its entirety. Wuthering Heights, in fact, is a symbol of the ‘atmospheric tumult’ which is the dominant force in the world of the book: a wild destructive force twisting the lives of everyone exposed to