Good vs. Evil in Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights follows the Romantic Movement, a movement within literature during the late 18th century with captured intense emotion and passion within writing as opposed to rationalisation. Emily Bronte’s main focal point within the novel is the extreme emotion of love and whether it leads to the characters contentment or ultimate calamity. This confliction of love is portrayed mainly through Catherine Earnshaw, a contemptuous, spoiled beauty whose metaphysical love for the protagonist, Heathcliff, will be tested by her disillusion of Edgar Linton and the social and financial benefits he

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847) is a much darker depiction on love, nature, and even revenge than the tales by the other two Bronte sisters. A crucial role in the book is played primarily by the landscape throughout the novel, whether it be through the mystery of the moors or how each home represents a specific dichotomy. Areas categorized as elements of nature, civilization, or even the in-between play an integral role in the development of characters, who are also represented in those aspects, within the novel.

In some pieces of literature, the concept of a story transitioning to and fro two different settings creates a polar atmosphere, and usually highlights the order and chaos between said places. One of the handful of pieces that use this type of plot include “Tale of Two Cities”, where the story revolves around England and Revolution-Era France, and sets similar tones and moods for each for each place, with England being solemn and dark, and France being restless and livid. In Emily Brontë’s novel, “Wuthering Heights”, not only does it depict two settings, the Wuthering Heights estate and Thrushcross Grange estate, which both contrast greatly, not only in the tone in which it’s described, but also in the residents that reside in the estates, but it also describes the conflicts between many of the characters within the novel, including Heathcliff, Catherine Linton, Edgar Linton, and many others too. And although Brontë highlights the petty quarrels

Wuthering Heights is a novel which deviates from the standard of Victorian literature. The novels of the Victorian Era were often works of social criticism. They generally had a moral purpose and promoted ideals of love and brotherhood. Wuthering Heights is more of a Victorian Gothic novel; it contains passion, violence, and supernatural elements (Mitchell 119). The world of Wuthering Heights seems to be a world without morals. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë does not idealize love; she presents it realistically, with all its faults and merits. She shows that love is a powerful force which can be destructive or redemptive. Heathcliff has an all-consuming passion for Catherine. When she chooses to marry Edgar, his spurned love turns into a

In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses the setting of the English Moors, a setting she is familiar with, to place two manors, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The first symbolizes man's dark side while the latter symbolizes an artificial utopia. This 19th century setting allows the reader to see the destructive nature of love when one loves the wrong person.

In this novel, the use of contrasting places becomes a prominent role is showcasing the two opposing forces that is Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. With both these houses being isolated to the nearest town, they both exhibit a deserted outcast aura that helps to describe the characters residing there. Throughout the story, these two houses represent the contradicting ideas and the problems that the characters go through. Both houses are located in the eye of the moors within Scotland; where storms and weather are a common threat toward the landscapes.

The interior scenes in the ThrushCross Grange represent the mood of the characters and how it influenced the location. Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights are two separate households with one-main goal and that is to show the importance of the scenery. The ThrushCross Grange is where the inhabitants are civilized and the house is immaculate. The immense view that Catherine and Heathcliff saw while looking through the window. “Both of us were able to look in by standing on the basement, and clinging to the ledge, and we saw- ah1 it was beautiful-- a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson –covered chairs and table, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass –drops hanging in silver chains from the centre, and

Where some have looked back to the past, while some have constantly gazed at the present condition and texture of life, and some have preferred to look beyond the past and the present to the state of life in future. Life is a bouquet of moments and every moment is a moment of discovery. Likewise Wuthering Heights is not just a love story; it is a window into the human soul, where one sees the loss, suffering, self discovery, and triumph of the characters in this novel. Catherine and Heathcliff’s passionate nature, intolerable frustration, and overwhelming loss have ruined them, and thus stripped them of their

Morality is one of the most prevalent themes in Wuthering Heights. Morality, in the context of this novel, means ethical behaviors. Thus, in order to tell whether the ethical behaviors are apparent in this novel, an analysis on the characters’ behaviors is important to be made in order to come to a conclusion. In Wuthering Heights, there are many events that relate to hatred, resentment and the desire to revenge and cause pain and sufferings to the others. These unethical behaviors, the reader can immediately relate to the protagonist of the novel, Heathcliff. As Nelly begins her storytelling in chapter four, readers immediately feel sympathy for Heathcliff from the moment he is first introduced to her story, because of his innocence of being

Many plays and novels use contrasting places. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte sets the novel around Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, two neighboring houses on the Yorkshire Moors in England. Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange are two different places with completely different characteristics and vibes.

The Development of Heathcliff’s Character in Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is a character who is ever present in “Wuthering Heights” and throughout the novel his character changes. At first he is a poor, homeless child, then he becomes a loved and neglected victim, then he is a degraded lover, and finally he transforms into a vicious, lonely master. Heathcliff is introduced into the novel as a homeless child. He is a ‘“dirty, ragged, black-haired child”’ who Mr. Earnshaw brings to Wuthering Heights from Liverpool. He is constantly referred to as ‘it’ and a ‘gypsy’.

The description of the setting of Wuthering Heights is described so thoroughly, which emphasizes the gothic tradition in this book. It is 1801 and Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, writes in his diary that he has rented a house in the Yorkshire countryside, or New England. After he arrived there, he visits his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. Heathcliff lives

Novelists choose all aspects of their stories carefully, including their settings. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Height features two settings vastly different in physical, geographical, and cultural surroundings that heavily shape the psychological and moral traits of the cast of characters. Young Catherine Earnshaw is affected by both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange which provide an impact strong enough to alter her character to an extreme where Heathcliff considers her to be two separate entities and her decisions and actions based on how the environments influence her greatly impact the novel as a whole.

“Is Wuthering Heights as nice a place as Thrushcross Grange?” (Brontë 329). That seems to be the question quickly answered in the start of the novel, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, and the answer is very clearly: No. In Wuthering Heights, contrast between the two main and unique places, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, helps to define and separate the lifestyles of the main characters. Wuthering Heights is distinctively more dark and chaotic and is full of troubles that make it seem a much darker place, while Thrushcross Grange is a brighter and more peaceful house. Brontë is able to use the two contrasting places to help support the drastically different character personalities, whether it be troublesome Catherine or her peaceful and calmer husband, Edgar. The use of the drastically different places, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, are vital to the novel because they offer contrast in the physical houses and define the people living in them and are meaningful to the novel by providing a deep and drastic connection to each place for the reader to separate and understand the characters thoroughly.

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights display of cultural and physical features of an environment affecting one’s character and moral traits is showcased through the first Catherine’s development throughout the novel. Catherine is forced to “adopt a double character”, as she lives as a rebellious, passionate woman on the turbulent Wuthering Heights, while behaving politely and courtly on the elegant Thrushcross Grange(Bronte, 48). Each of these environments also contains a love interest of Catherine’s, each man parallel with the characteristics of their environments: Heathcliff, the passionate and destructive, residing in Wuthering Heights, while the civilized and gentle Edgar inhabits Thrushcross Grange. Catherine’s development in character due to her setting significantly contributes to the theme that pursuing passionate love is dangerous, such as the love shared by Heathcliff and Catherine.