Essays on Wuthering Heights

A story filled with terror, abuse, mystery, gloom, death, and most admirably love, Wuthering Heights is a classic novel and one of the greatest pieces in Gothic Literature. As William Shakespeare once wrote “The course of love never did run smooth.” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1) These honest words are the perfect introduction to...

Set in the Romantic period, an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bronte in 1847, broke boundaries for females worldwide. During this time and many years before that, many people rejected the way women were characterized in this novel, especially...

Wuthering Heights is a Gothic-fiction classic written by novelist Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) about a man named Lockwood who rents Thrushcross Grange, one of two manors which his bitter landlord, Heathcliff, owns. He asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, about the story behind Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and she narrates...

In Wuthering Heights, one area in which the sublime is highlighted is through the gloomy landscape. In the first volume, Lockwood’s description of the sheer physicality of Wuthering Heights and the heath and brackish mud he had to wade through to reach the house foregrounds elements of sublimity, most notably in the dangerous, yet awe-inspiring...

Gothic literature arose from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. Gothic writings are known to have the fantasy elements predominate over the realistic, the uncanny over the familiar, and the supernatural over the natural. Mentions of apparitions, madness, death, and decay are among the many elements that characterized the 18th-century literary genre,...

Wuthering Heights experiments with form, attempting to find ways to unify and/or correct it. A pair of very conventional lovers is pitted against a pair of highly unconventional ones, thus highlighting the differences between the two styles of characterization. In terms of the novel’s two plots, one story is markedly absent of traditional literary tropes...

Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, explains the up and downs of love between each character in the book. Describing the tempestuous life of Heathcliff and his interactions with Catherine, the dynamic between the characters is arduous, full of betrayal, hate, and revenge. Bronte displays how emotions drive people to act irrationally, and their decisions, for...

Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë may be described by critics as the ‘last great Romantic novel’ due to the fact although it was technically published within the Victorian era of literature, it contains many characteristics of Romantic literature. Chronologically, it sits within the Victorian period, but its content is Romantic. Romanticism is the name...

Written by sisters Anne and Emily Bronte, “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” and “Wuthering Heights” are Victorian Gothic novels which centralise around an obsessive or otherwise destructive relationship. Coined the “three weird sisters” by poet Ted Hughes, an intentional summoning of Macbeth’s blasted heath to Haworth parsonage, Emily, Anne, and sister Charlotte (Jane Eyre) are...

Religion in Emily Bronte’s society was a way of life; it was practised and implemented in daily routine. However, some sought to more unnatural ways of life, such as witchcraft and devilry. As Phillip notes, ‘Victorian England was best described as still a fundamentally religious age or as a period of growing secularisation.’ The influence...