Wuthering Heights is the name of the farmhouse where the story unfolds. Novel is replete with class fight. When this novel was composed, social standing and property hold went as one. In the opening of the story, the Earnshaws stand for the lower class living at Wuthering Heights. The Lintons, at Thrushcross Grange, represent the high class. The social characteristic and non-violent nature of the characters like Lintons is also voice of Victorian norms. But violence is clearly a negative answer to Victorian family ideals. The characters of Cathy Linton the younger, Hareton, and Linton, represent the late Victorian era. The awareness of women rights and sense of social responsibility in property matters are aspects credited to Victorian period. The novel is about class structure in society as well as a piece on the role of women. Bronte show how class mobility is not forever moving in one way. Wuthering Heights is a study of nineteenth-century English class structures and economic …show more content…
It is in a very bare position on the moors, a four mile walk from Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff, the hero of this story, is a orphan. He is adopted by the senior Earnshaw who lives in Wuthering Heights. After senior Earnshaw’s death, he is violated as a servant and is badly mistreated by Hindley, the junior Earnshaw. But, Catherine, the daughter of senior Earnshaw and heroine of this story, loves him deeply and holds him as her soul and vice versa. Even if Catherine loves Heathcliff more than anything else, after by chance meeting Edgar Linton, a noble young man who lives in Thrushcross Grange, she feels that it would degrade her if she got married to him. Here is shown Catherine’s inner disagreement. the dishonored Heathcliff becomes angry and then disappears. Losing her lover, Catherine falls into serious illness and then marries Linton after improving. Three years passed then, Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights and behaves like a gentleman. Tortured between her previous lover and her present husband, Catherine dies soon in childbirth after a last meeting with her lover. Full of sadness because of Catherine’s death, Heathcliff react harshly towards his enemies but still cannot bear the separation from Catherine; he goes hungry himself to die to meet his lover. The novel finishes with a peaceful marriage of Cathy and Hareton, another pair of