Wuthering Heights novel for Emily Bronte is one of the most important novel in history of English literature; because Wuthering Heights came with different ideas that contrast with Victorian ideas, some of these Victorian ideas for Ruskin female figure that should be helpmate, homemaker and make love environment for her husband, moreover the poet Patmore describes Victorian woman as an angel in the house, also the Victorian home as a place of peace, in the other hand the man is the leader of the house (Watson, Towheed 399-341), but the novel challenge these ideas and social values, so the critic Kiely sees Wuthering Height as radical novel; because it's against the English tradition (Harold 81), yet Allott sees the novel as moral taint and
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Robert Kiely saw Wuthering Heights as romanticism or Gothic romanticism ; because of characteristics of Heathcliff and Catherine, Kiely sees the conversion in novel turn into something like poetry, he called it antithesis or dynamic antagonism , moreover the challenge between Edgar and Heathcliff look romantic, also Heathcliff and Catherine were driven by strong emotions like (envy , ambition, pride, passion, lust, curiosity and intellectual), Catherine in her marriage she desires to overpass and escape from her body and her society, and that escape is by the death, the death is realistic but here is romantic ; because that death is not physical or psychological, but it's more imagination and obsession, in the other hand Gothic romanticism in the novel characteristic by (madness and lunacy, dreams, physical violence), and that against social conventions and the tradition, in addition the main idea of romanticism that it's dreams and childhood memories of Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights and the moors, yet beyond the death romantic idea that seen when Heathcliff open the grave of Catherine and refuse of let her body or free her soul it's look like strong romantic or Gothic romantic idea (Academic Brooklyn), and of course the union of the souls between Heathcliff and Catherine in her speech ’’ I am Heathcliff‘‘ ( Bronte 73) and Heathcliff speech ’’ Come in … her me ‘‘(Bronte 24) that is strong union between Heathcliff and Catherine, also there are echo for Coleridge idea about one life and there is no heaven like Catherine says for Nelly heaven not my home and elegy in her speech (Watson, Towheed 388- 391) the struggle and movement of Catherine from Wuthering Heights (nature) to Thrushcross Grange (civilization) is romantic to Gubar and Gilbert it's start unity of souls(397)
Robert Kiely saw Wuthering Heights as romanticism or Gothic romanticism ; because of characteristics of Heathcliff and Catherine, Kiely sees the conversion in novel turn into something like poetry, he called it antithesis or dynamic antagonism , moreover the challenge between Edgar and Heathcliff look romantic, also Heathcliff and Catherine were driven by strong emotions like (envy , ambition, pride, passion, lust, curiosity and intellectual), Catherine in her marriage she desires to overpass and escape from her body and her society, and that escape is by the death, the death is realistic but here is romantic ; because that death is not physical or psychological, but it's more imagination and obsession, in the other hand Gothic romanticism in the novel characteristic by (madness and lunacy, dreams, physical violence), and that against social conventions and the tradition, in addition the main idea of romanticism that it's dreams and childhood memories of Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights and the moors, yet beyond the death romantic idea that seen when Heathcliff open the grave of Catherine and refuse of let her body or free her soul it's look like strong romantic or Gothic romantic idea (Academic Brooklyn), and of course the union of the souls between Heathcliff and Catherine in her speech ’’ I am Heathcliff‘‘ ( Bronte 73) and Heathcliff speech ’’ Come in … her me ‘‘(Bronte 24) that is strong union between Heathcliff and Catherine, also there are echo for Coleridge idea about one life and there is no heaven like Catherine says for Nelly heaven not my home and elegy in her speech (Watson, Towheed 388- 391) the struggle and movement of Catherine from Wuthering Heights (nature) to Thrushcross Grange (civilization) is romantic to Gubar and Gilbert it's start unity of souls(397)