In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the natural social class structure is disrupted – or rather, re-ordered - by the introduction of “outside forces”. Three major categories indicate changes in social class: the natural inhabitants, the bourgeoisie, and outside forces. The natural inhabitants are, as expected, those who live a majority their life within the confines of Wuthering Heights and naturally morph classes to fill the needs of the house. The bourgeoisie are not exactly part of Wuthering Heights; instead, they take temporary roles within the house while still remaining distinctly separate. It follows that outside forces, or those who adhere to a social class structure other than the fluid form of nature, are what change the status …show more content…
Earnshaw almost forces to conform to the disorderly system, like an ill-fitting puzzle piece. He is raised in a civilization that delegates him as the lowest of the low, and it causes him to develop resentment toward those in power. It is important for the reader to take note of Emily Bronte’s belief in the natural organization of social class – one that morphs in disorder. Therefore, Heathcliff can be viewed as the antagonist as he tries to construct a social class system that puts him at the top of the food chain around the previously natural Wuthering Heights. Rather than forcing himself into the puzzle of Wuthering Heights, he tries to build a new puzzle around himself. When Mr. Earnshaw establishes Heathcliff as his favorite child, Hindley is appalled by this disruption to the status quo. As a result, Hindley tries to gain power for himself by bullying Catherine and Heathcliff into positions lower than him; Heathcliff caused the inhabitants to fight for the social class structure that they had previously ignored. This is shown again when Catherine longs to be part of the upper class, saying “if I marry Linton, I can aid Heathcliff to rise and place him out of my brother’s power” (82). Heathcliff’s application of a new social structure does not help him have power over …show more content…
Civilization, then, posts a direct opposition to this purity. The social organization embodied by the Lintons and Lockwood, as well as Heathcliff’s branch of rebellious social structure, are eventually thwarted by the natural power through Cathy and Hareton Earnshaw. This revival of the natural and isolated power of Wuthering Heights represent Emily Bronte’s argument that the natural order - that which cannot be controlled nor defined by civilization - is the purest form of social
Even though Jane faces limits to opportunities in her life because she strictly belongs to neither the upper nor poor class, her thinking isn’t limited and she is able to grow as an individual unlike the characters who have been assigned to a specific class. Through Jane’s point of view, Charlotte Brontë expresses her view that the class system is harmful Jane and thus to the society in which she lives in her novel Jane Eyre.
This cold treatment only progressed and became abusive when Mr. Earnshaw, one of the few people to ever care about Heathcliff, dies and his son who loathes the protagonist becomes the master of Wuthering Heights. “He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead; compelling him to do so as hard as any other lad on the farm” (Bronte 71).
Cruelty compels one to inflict cruelty upon others. In her novel, Wuthering Heights, Brontë illustrates the rough life of Heathcliff, conflicted with whether he should focus his life on loving Catherine Earnshaw or inflicting revenge on those who tortured him as a child. Mr. Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff into the Earnshaw family as an orphan gypsy, a social class that most of the Earnshaw did not care for. The eldest child of Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley, abuses Heathcliff horribly, shaping the way Heathcliff perceives the world around him. Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley’s younger sister, motivates Heathcliff to endure this pain through their affectionate relationship. With his heart focused on revenge, Heathcliff devises a cruel plan to retaliate those who hurt him; he returns to Wuthering Heights as a refined, powerful man. He takes some of his anger out on Hareton Earnshaw, Hindley’s son; this parallels Hindley’s abuse towards Heathcliff. Through Hindley’s and Heathcliff’s abusiveness in Wuthering Heights, Brontë asserts that cruelty cycles from its perpetrators to its victims.
The social classes in Wuthering Heights are an insight to the society that Emily Bronte experienced. The British society of 1770 wasn’t accepting of a person with darker features which is reflected in how Heathcliff is treated in the novel. Orphans were also never meant to rise from their station below the servants. This is an insight into why Hindley Earnshaw hated Heathcliff and referred to him as a usurper of his father’s affections. When Hidley became master of Wuthering Heights he returned Heathcliff to his “rightful” place.
It is clear, that in Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ both Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights are two very different places. While the Grange can be seen as beautiful and elegant, it can also be viewed as unnatural and materialized; and while Wuthering Heights seems unfriendly and unkempt no fair decisions can be made when it is compared with an impeccable,
Conversely, 'Wuthering Heights ' may be interpreted as a socio-economic novel. The novel opens in 1801, a date Q.D. Leavis believes Brontë chose in order “to fix its happenings at a time when the old rough farming culture, based on a naturally patriarchal family life, was to be challenged, tamed and routed by social and cultural changes”. At the time, the Industrial Revolution was under way in England; it was a dominant force in English economy and society. The traditional social class- dynamic was disrupted by an upwardly-inspired middle class. A new standard for defining a gentleman was challenging the conservative ideals of breeding and family. This reality provides the context for socio-economic readings of the novel. [8]
The life of those who lived in 19th-century Britain varied widely depending on where you lied within the highly distinct social classes. In Charlotte Brontë’s, Jane Eyre, societal norms are challenged by the young protagonist, Jane Eyre. The narrative follows the life of Jane as she transcends social classes, gaining insight into the life of rich and poor alike. Brontë does not confine Jane to a set class, by doing so, Jane can develop her understanding of the world from a multitude of perspectives. Jane strays from the norms of society by her unconventional faith, her negative emotions towards the hierarchal society she lives in, and her uncontrollable desire to place passion over principle.
Britain's society had an unbalance of power during the late eighteenth century amongst genders. The roles of men and women were distinct, however the women had far less say and input. In the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë displays the revolutionary change amongst women beginning in the late 1860s. The barrier of not having a voice as well as restricted freedom had finally been broken down. The roles of women have progressed drastically from the stay home mother, to marriage rights, to finally the rebellious actions of women wanting to achieve their individualism.
In Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre, Bronte seemingly condemns the existing social hierarchy. Not only are the characters who are most concerned with the allure of fortune and rank portrayed as either deceitful or unethical, but even characters who’ve accepted their means of poverty and demonstrate honest moral natures are mocked. Rather than use the normal class structures, the book suggests that a person of impoverished means can be viewed as socially respectable with the condition that they maintain a sincere desire to better both oneself and their means of living.
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Social Classes in Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights, a gothic novel written by Emily Bronte in the early nineteenth century, describes the conflict and the passionate bond between Catherine Earnshaw and her rough but romantic lover, Heathcliff. In the beginning of the book, Heathcliff, an orphan is made a part of the Earnshaw family. This adoption is not readily accepted by the older brother, Hindley, who sees the new child as a rival to his claim of dominance in the family. However, Catherine, the sister is quickly attracted to young Heathcliff, so different from anyone she had ever known. As the two grow older, Heathcliff finds himself falling in love with Catherine.
Creating a haven from the cruel outside world, families ideally provide protection and support for each of their members. In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, however, bitterness grows between the Earnshaws and the Lintons. Within these two families, siblings rival for power and parents fail to fulfill their roles as caregivers. The intertwining relationships of the Earnshaws and the Lintons are marked by physical abuse, degradation, and emotional negligence. These reduce each of the family members’ life to a lonely and meaningless journey though the cold and misty moors.
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In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the novel is placed during the Victorian era. The characters live in Wuthering Heights or the contrasting Thrushcross Grange set in the “Yorkshire moors of England” (Telgen 317). Wuthering Heights is surrounded in open, wild nature isolated by the moors and hills. Whereas Thrushcross Grange is settled in the tranquility tucked in between the valley. These estates mirror the characters who inhabit them. The isolation contributes to Catherine and Heathcliff’s delayed development of “social dexterity”, according to Goodlett. Without interaction from the world the children’s relationship is strengthened by the insularity of Wuthering Heights. However, Catherine is refined once she stays with the Litton’s at Thrushcross Grange for several weeks. There she gains interest in social status and wealth causing her to neglect Heathcliff for
However, despite changes, the literary world remained predominantly male, and women writers not encouraged, or taken seriously. Consequently, to counteract this Emily Bronte published her novel Wuthering Heights, under the male pseudonym of Ellis Bell. Wuthering Heights is the story of domesticity, obsession, and elemental divided passion between the intertwined homes of the Earnshaw’s residing at the rural farmhouse Wuthering Heights, and the Linton family of the more genteel Thrushcross Grange. This essay will discuss how the language and narrative voices established a structural pattern of the novel, and how these differing voices had a dramatic effect on the interpretation of the overall story.