Nature Vs Nurture Wuthering Heights

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights share similarities in many aspects, perhaps most plainly seen in the plots: just as Clarissa marries Richard rather than Peter Walsh in order to secure a comfortable life for herself, Catherine chooses Edgar Linton over Heathcliff in an attempt to wrest both herself and Heathcliff from the squalid lifestyle of Wuthering Heights. However, these two novels also overlap in thematic elements in that both are concerned with the opposing forces of civilization or order and chaos or madness. The recurring image of the house is an important symbol used to illustrate both authors’ order versus chaos

It is worth, therefore, noticing the significant difference in the two major properties in the novel. Working class people inhabited Wuthering Heights, while Thrushcross Grange was inhabited by those higher on the social ladder. When Heathcliff and Catherine “peek” through their window, it shows that they aspire to be on the same level, socially. Heathcliff aquires both and this symbolises his character. He has the façade of a “gentleman” of high social rank, but has the “gypsy” like demeanour. Heathcliff resides at Wuthering Heights, a place that is constantly bombarded by the “north wind”. This stormy surround can often emulate Heathcliff’s emotional anger at the betrayal of his beloved Cathy. Heathcliff represents a typical protagonist of the Romance genre at the time; internalised in his emotions and lonely but there is hope that he will ultimately becomes much more of a typical hero with the experience of love. Heathcliff, however, as much as the reader wants him to, never becomes this typical hero and has much the adverse effect from love.

Consider the reason why the gothic style of literature and the arts has been culturally relevant ever since its precedent-setting works. It is that gothic literature tells the audience exactly what they do not want to hear about themselves. Most gothic artists/authors are brutally honest in how they depict human nature: greedy, sinister, and above all, hopeless. This essential element of gothic, with the inclusion of the supernatural, takes the main stage in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. This story of romance, mystery, and violence is not only the epitome of the gothic novel, but also a social commentary that rings true for the human race in its entirety. In a sense, Wuthering Heights is a true story, not because the characters and events are factual, but because Brontë writes the story in a way that the truth is left up to the reader. She utilizes several devices that are repeated throughout the novel to achieve this. One which is ever-present is the use of multiple lenses on the story. The fact that the story is told from several unreliable, biased narrators as opposed to Brontë herself offers the reader a story in the same way one would receive a real-world story. Another device Brontë uses is the repetition imagery of Wuthering Heights as a three way battlefield dividing heaven, hell, and the earth. The christian imagery, especially those which closely align Heathcliff with John Milton’s Byronic Satan in Paradise Lost, demonstrate a human consciousness that

Introduction Boundaries are important as they indicate a limit a person not supposed to cross, it important that people respect boundaries as once boundaries are crossed, it can affect the relationship between two people or society as a whole. Crossing boundaries come with consequences. In regards to this assignment we will be looking at consequences of challenging boundaries in the gothic novels Wuthering heights and Frankenstein. The social and cultural background of the genre gothic novel According to Mullan, (2014), gothic fiction began as a sophisticated joke Horace Walpole first applied the word gothic to a novel in the subtitle – ‘a gothic story’- of the Castle of Otranto, published in 1764. According to Tiffin (2011) the historical context of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century is important to the gothic form, as

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 excerpt from Emily Brönte’s poem “How Clear She Shines” the elements of Gothicism are displayed clearly. The overall cynical mood sets the scene for a gothic style of writing; the contrasts between truth and treachery, joy and pain, peace and grief, bring out a feeling of unease that is Gothicism. Emily Bronte expounded on these themes in her novel Wuthering Heights, a classic work of gothic fiction. This novel portrays two lovers with a very unhealthy relationship in which they are very passionate but take their passion to the extreme. The lengths they go for their love can initially be classified as traditional romanticism, but love turns into obsession and quickly grows grotesque. This transformation marks the transition from Romanticism into Gothicism. Gothicism is a style of writing that is characterized by fear, horror, and death, but can also include Romantic qualities like nature, individualism, and emotion. Romanticism is known for its emphasis on emotion and imagination; Gothicism takes these themes and twists them into something dark and disturbing. In Gothicism, elements of Romanticism are taken too far to the absolute extreme, resulting in grotesque outcomes instead of the predictable plot generated by most romantic novels. Emily Brönte uses the Gothic themes of doppelgänger, sublimity, and revenge to stress the surreal and outrageous actions and thought of the main characters, Catherine and Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights.

First published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was not met with immediate praise. Its depictions of violent characters and harsh realities were uncomfortable to a Victorian audience obsessed with outward appearances and societal orderliness. With time, though, more people were able to appreciate the novel’s beauty and scrutiny of the human psyche, and Wuthering Heights earned its place in the literary canon of classic works. Modern audiences continue to laud the book as the quintessence of good literature because of its complexity and comments on the human condition. Emily Bronte’s use of symmetry and juxtaposition between families, characters, and locations in Wuthering Heights functions not only to create an engaging and beautiful story about love and understanding, but also to explore the elaborate interactions between human suffering and cataclysmic downfall, thus affirming the inherent value of even debased and degraded individuals.

Although Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights are very different, the two households share similarities as well. Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights are isolated from other people. The two houses are miles apart, and the only common visitor is the doctor. As a result from the isolation, the two households relied on each other for company. As each visit brought a part of the visitor’s household’s atmosphere, the transformation of Catherine and Heathcliff deepened. The presence of Edgar Linton caused Catherine to act more refines and mature, and Heathcliff became more controlled with his anger. However, because of their settings each character fell into their pervious attitude. Heathcliff began to argue with Catherine because she spends more time with Edgar instead of him, and Catherine aborted her pretense of being a refined individual when Nelly refused to obey her orders. This recognize the fact that although that a person can change, they cannot change completely.

Wuthering Heights is depicted as a cold, threatening, and dark manor, situated on a "bleak hilltop." In the novel, "wuthering" is the local adjective to describe the "atmospheric tumult" present in the region. The rugged manor, Wuthering Heights, represents a "storm", characterized by the wild emotions and harsh behaviors of the inhabitants. The depressing atmosphere causes people to "shiver through every limb" at the "sorrowful sight" of the Heights. In deep contrast, Thrushcross Grange is described as a "splendid place" of elegance and comfort. The peaceful dwelling of the Grange represents higher values and morals, and is considered the "calm" residence of the novel. The author creatively reveals the theme of good versus evil, or the calm versus the storm, through the pronounced symbolic differences in the houses.

Throughout the compelling conspiracy of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, creates an inhospitable and ominous estate, known as the Heights, that mirrors the savage inhabitants’ demeanor, such as the characters, Joseph or Hindley, but it is for most part apparent with Mr. Heathcliff. In the exposition, the reader gets a clear idea that the Heights is a dim, depressing, miserable residence when Mr. Lockwood first arrives there, and he begins to describes the Heights by observing the terrain; and he thinks to himself, “[O]ne may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs… [and] by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of sun” (4 Emily Brontë d).

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is an English classic filled with love, heartache, and death. Many mysterious literary conventions are used in the novel, including ghostly spirits, weather, and the infamous love triangle. The person who holds this remarkable story is Nelly, who in present day would be the old lady at church who knows everybody’s secrets.  With the drama and detail each of the characters hold, everything is not what it seems.

Wuthering Heights is a great literary work which keeps the audience exited while going through the novel. Some novels are monotonous in the way they are written and lack ideas to keep the novel move forward but this novel is an exception. Author keeps the audience guessing throughout this novel and that is one of the fundamental reasons for acceptance of this book even by the audience of this generation. Wuthering Heights basically revolves around its two main characters Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff .The novel portrays the emotional and destructive love between its two central characters mentioned above. Catherine and Heathcliff's love heads to a totally different direction as we move forward the novel. Even though beginning of the novel shows the love to be true and unconditional it changes rapidly to infatuation from Catherine the female lead character in the novel. This change of attitude actually makes the novel exiting and it ultimately leads the way to one of the main themes of the novel –revenge. I would be focusing on the significance of the theme ‘revenge’ in this work by Emily Bronte.

Bronte might have had many characters die to get messages about death across to her readers. Heathcliff believed that death was the only way to be happy. He wished for Catherine to be by his side, but she is not longer alive. His loss of purpose for living motivated him to reunite with Catherine as a ghost. Though not specifically stated, Heathcliff died because he wanted to be reunited with Catherine. The open windows in the scene of Heathcliff’s death suggests that Heathcliff is reunited with Catherine because Catherine was present outside of the house and the windows is their mode of interaction. By opening the windows before dying, Heathcliff can be reunited with his lover. To the reader, death can be scary and mysterious. The fear the unknown can inspire fear within people. Death can also relieve pain. Heathcliff’s pain is not being with Catherine, so death is his method of alleviating his

Gothic literature includes elements of style that is usually portrayed in tales and deals with horror, despair, the grotesque, and mysteries. In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, there are many elements of gothic literature that is found throughout the book. The term gothic is very broad in literature, and gothic can mean many different things from characteristics of people, feelings and reactions of a specific setting, mood, actions that happen being people, and so much more. All of this thrived in the 19th century. Gothic is categorized by an emphasis on the dark, gloomy, and mysterious. Ideas such as magic, hidden passages, wind, ghosts, and other supernatural elements, love, etc were all elements in the Gothic movement during the 19th century. Specifically, the descriptions of the settings, both outside and inside, in the novel, the actions of the main protagonists in the novel, and the love between Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights all add on to this idea of a gothic literature or tradition.

"Wuthering Heights" is the novel not only about love and revenge. It shows how strong passionate feelings govern the actions of individuals and even encourage the horrific crimes (Shakespearean theme in Bronte). For this novel inherent moral ambiguity. The author gives the reader the opportunity to shape attitudes and make their own assessment of the actions of the characters of the novel, it is the perception of "Wuthering Heights" is constantly changing from one reading to the next.