Apart from humans, who are predominantly present in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; animal imagery is brilliantly used by Emily Bronte in this magnum opus with deep symbolic and metaphorical meanings attached to it, and having psychological underpinning. In this study, Psychoanalysis of novel, Wuthering Heights is undertaken, which has further explained Primitivism in Healthcliff’s personality, and the regression of dog into wolf, hence going from partial domesticity into wildness, from control into chaos and from apparent calmness into destructiveness.
Indeed, the comparison of a violent dog with Heathcliff is significantly used by Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heights throughout the novel, and …show more content…
The origin of both characters are unknown, and their birthplaces are significantly connected with the unknown. Furthermore, Heathcliff likes the primitivistic, dark, bleak and violent environment of Wuthering Heights more than the bright, civilized and calm environment of Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff feels more comfortable in Wuthering Heights, and that is why despite acquiring both estates, he still prefers to live in Wuthering Heights, his natural inhabitance of primitivism. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte gives many references to violent and partially tamed dogs in the first chapters clearly, so that the readers can establish and see a clear connection between its inhabitants, animals and layers of primitivism. Lockwood’s encounter with Heathcliff’s dogs is really his first encounter with the true nature of their owners, as Heathcliff himself suggests when he says: “Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them.” 9 Lack of hospitality and civility are the hallmarks of Wuthering Height. Like animals, there is little inhibition and prohibition in the actions of characters, and chiefly Heathcliff is driven by violence, conflicts and
Indeed, the comparison of a violent dog with Heathcliff is significantly used by Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heights throughout the novel, and …show more content…
The origin of both characters are unknown, and their birthplaces are significantly connected with the unknown. Furthermore, Heathcliff likes the primitivistic, dark, bleak and violent environment of Wuthering Heights more than the bright, civilized and calm environment of Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff feels more comfortable in Wuthering Heights, and that is why despite acquiring both estates, he still prefers to live in Wuthering Heights, his natural inhabitance of primitivism. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte gives many references to violent and partially tamed dogs in the first chapters clearly, so that the readers can establish and see a clear connection between its inhabitants, animals and layers of primitivism. Lockwood’s encounter with Heathcliff’s dogs is really his first encounter with the true nature of their owners, as Heathcliff himself suggests when he says: “Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them.” 9 Lack of hospitality and civility are the hallmarks of Wuthering Height. Like animals, there is little inhibition and prohibition in the actions of characters, and chiefly Heathcliff is driven by violence, conflicts and