Wuthering Heights is filled with different examples of the Romantic Movements. Heathcliff is an exceptionally difficult character to analyze because he displays numerous altered personalities. This raises the question: which Romantic Movement was most common in Wuthering Heights? An analysis of Wuthering Heights reveals the most common Romantic Movement in the text: Romanticism. Romanticism is based upon the ideas of subjectivity, inspiration and the primacy of the individual. Various examples of these from the text are when Heathcliff has Catherine’s grave excavated, the repeated possibility of supernatural beings, and the love from the past that is seen from Heathcliff and Catherine. At one point in the text, readers picture Heathcliff’s
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The first example of a supernatural being is when Edgar believed he had encountered Catherine’s ghost when spending the night at Wuthering Heights. The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. (Brontë …show more content…
Catherine decides to follow the ideal life that all women dream of living instead of following her heart. We see her aspire to be individual. Subjectivity is involved because her judgment of which life to lead is based on her individual personal impressions and feelings that are opinions rather than external fact. She knows that she loves Heathcliff but she doesn’t follow her heart. Instead she decides to follow the “ideal” path because she believes she will be able to aid Heathcliff after marrying Edgar. The decision to marry Edgar spiraled down to make the text truly fascinating. Heathcliff shaped his personality due to this decision and Catherine, while only seen in the first few chapters, gave birth to young Cathy. Young Cathy made a lasting imprint on Heathcliff that was with him until he passed
The first example of a supernatural being is when Edgar believed he had encountered Catherine’s ghost when spending the night at Wuthering Heights. The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. (Brontë …show more content…
Catherine decides to follow the ideal life that all women dream of living instead of following her heart. We see her aspire to be individual. Subjectivity is involved because her judgment of which life to lead is based on her individual personal impressions and feelings that are opinions rather than external fact. She knows that she loves Heathcliff but she doesn’t follow her heart. Instead she decides to follow the “ideal” path because she believes she will be able to aid Heathcliff after marrying Edgar. The decision to marry Edgar spiraled down to make the text truly fascinating. Heathcliff shaped his personality due to this decision and Catherine, while only seen in the first few chapters, gave birth to young Cathy. Young Cathy made a lasting imprint on Heathcliff that was with him until he passed