Crown Heights

The plot of Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, is fueled by the actions of many characters in the novel as a result of their motivations-- whether it be love, fear, or spite. Heathcliff, a gypsy boy that is adopted by the Earnshaws, rises to power throughout the years because he seeks revenge against his family and the Lintons. Heathcliff’s revenge is driven by hate for his social standing- he is unable to be with his true love, Catherine, because he is too poor. The assassination of Heathcliff…

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is an unconventional take on romance. Brontë presents two different types of love through the lives of her main characters. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s stubborn, romantic passion portrays the dark side of love. The characters’ intense passions and like-personalities cause much turmoil and destruction in their own lives as well as in all those around them. The next generation of lovers, Catherine Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw, evolve with time and are…

How to Read Literature Like a Professor and Wuthering Heights It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow Weather can be used for foreshadowing and to create emotional atmosphere. In the story, Bronte uses bad weather to underscore the troubling times the characters experience. Even the eponymous Wuthering Heights has significance, it is explained in the book that “ ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather”…

Article Review The article ´´The Cycle of the Seasons: Without and Within Time´´ by Virginia L. Wolf published in the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 4, Winter in 1986 compares and contrasts the following novels: E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Eleanor Estes's The Moffats, and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Part I. The article focuses on the analysis of nature´s life cycle and how it is represented through…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

Pride and Prejudice in Pride and Prejudice True to the title, Pride and Prejudice is filled to the brim with characters that exhibit those two flaws and many more. The main heroine Elizabeth to the imperious and powerful Lady Catherine to everyone in between, almost everyone in the novel shows some form of one of these flaws. Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy is an important character in Pride and Prejudice. The nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh who could be considered the main antagonist of the novel,…

Karen van der Zee and Gail Godwin are both strong writers, but explore the world of writing differently than one another. Van der Zee, the author of From A Secret Sorrow, composes romance novels, while Godwin, the author of “A Sorrowful Woman,” composes a variety of short stories. Both authors compose intriguing works, but “A Sorrowful Woman” is a better example of literature. Both of these authors focus of the theme, the characters and the conflicts in the stories that will be compared, but…

and minor characters, a unifying theme, and several settings. So, Emma by Jane Austen and Wuthering Heights by Bronte are among the famous novels since its genesis in 1700 in England. The two novels have similar stories of which they share poetic devises such as setting, plots and style among others. In simple terms, the family of woodhouse that is in Emma and the family of Earnshaw in wuthering Heights have almost similar background. Therefore, this essay explains how love, marriage and social…

inevitable fate. Although love and hate are both feelings that can be suppressed into the depths of emotion to not be exploited, the novel Wuthering Heights…

Social and Cultural Background of Genre When trying to understand this genre one must first understand what the meaning of the word ‘Gothic’ means. Gothic is the things that are seen to be barbaric and not naturally pleasing (Anderson, Christensen & Troest, 1998). This genre bloomed in the 1800s and was very popular in those times. The literature pieces that were inspired by this genre seemed to get many critics from the different people that were exposed to it. Some other writers thought of it…