Wuthering Heights

Social status during the early nineteenth century was a key component that contributed towards an intimate relationship and eventually marriage. In Emily Bronte’s mid-19th century classic epic, Wuthering Heights, Cathy Earnshaw limits her ability to love Heathcliff because of her high concerns regarding status. Although in the beginning Cathy and her daughter have a similar condescending behavior towards their companions, in the end Catherine detaches herself from the importance of class.…

These effects lead the person to believe that they are unimportant and that they are incapable of living a normal life. The difference between feeling sad and being in a state of depression sparks major differences physically and mentally. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, the character of Heathcliff suffered with depression, which created a domino effect that inflicted pain not only to himself, but also to all the other characters he interacted with, and his depression became the essential…

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”…

- Catherine’s bed has almost come to symbolize a coffin. It is associated at the beginning with Lockwood and Catherine’s ghost and now is the setting of Heathcliff’s death. This very morbid place was also a symbol of Catherine to Heathcliff while he was still living. It was a very holy place to him and it is fitting that he may finally be at peace there. -Since Catherine Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff has changed, as become evident through his empathy here. He has a scornful attitude towards…

their novels. To the characters in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, love seems simple at first, but then turns into a forceful void none can escape. It is with this that the Bronte sisters display that it is better to act knowledgeably rather than emotionally when faced with the insanity that is falling in love. The repercussions from acting solely on emotion due to love are presented constantly in both books, with negative portrayal. Through Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, the Bronte sisters…

The compelling storyline of Wuthering Heights, authored by Emily Brontë, constantly puts emphasis on the setting, weather, and landscape; and by this consistent observance contrived by the changing narrator, the characters’ personalities, choices, and emotions are influenced and reflected by the mood that is created by the setting, affecting the plot throughout this intriguing, love story. Thus, the harsh setting and brutal weather causes much of the conflict because the characters are…

"my landlord—the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with" (Brontë 1) ______________________________________________________________________________ The novel's introductory quote gives a concise and vague, yet proper description of the narrator's (Mr. Lockwood's) proprietor Heathcliff. Heathcliff's troublesome behaviors, despite his dissociation with others, define him best. For example, Heathcliff is rude to most creatures: after kicking his dog, he insists his dog is accustomed to…

such as affecting whom people married. Throughout the books Persuasion and Wuthering Heights the characters express how social class affects their lives and the outcome of their lives. During these two books social class and marriage are extremely important to the story line, both books do not let the thought of social class overcome love, although the way they both get to that point is different. During Wuthering Heights and Persuasion social class and marriage affect the story and the…

“A Gothic hero should be passionate, obsessive and unsettling in equal measure.” In light of this comment, discuss the representation of both heroes and heroines in the Gothic texts you have studied this year. Gothic heroes were first known as Byronic heroes being ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’; they normally had a problematic and secretive past therefore isolating themselves from the world be it physically or mentally. Gothic heroines are stereotypically seen to be young, innocent and a…

changeling tradition. Hareton’s hostility towards Heathcliff can also be attributed to his own preconceptions about Heathcliff’s racial identity. Hareton refers to Heathcliff as a “gipsy,” a member of a group of people that “…in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights appears in contrast as a demonic figure for the countercolonization of memory and the erosion of Western identity under ‘native’ influence.” (Trumpener pg. 871). When Hareton accuses Heathcliff of “wheedling [his] father out of all he…