Abstract: Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” is best known for its gothic scenery, romance and violence. The novel has portrayed Heathcliff as both a hero and a villain. He was a hero who was driven by vengeance at the middle of the novel and became a villain. He was not a born villain but a villain made. While all the retaliations in the English Literature were seen in favour of the one who retaliated, Heathcliff’s retaliation was regarded as a villainous act. Heathcliff was portrayed as a gypsy
Paper Book Title: Wuthering Heights Author: Emily Brontë The Author and Her Times: Emily Brontë was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England to Maria Branwell and Reverend Patrick Brontë. She had a brother, Branwell, as well as four older sisters, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Maria and Anne. Within a couple months of Emily Brontë’s birth, her mother passed away from cancer. Emily, Charlotte, Elizabeth and Maria went off to school at the Clergy Daughters’ School when Emily was six. At the
WUTHERING HEIGHTS AS A GOTHIC NOVEL Dr. Seeme Mahmood Assistant Professor English Institute for Excellence in Higher Education Bhopal Introduction Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte’s only novel and it is considered the fullest expression of her highly individual poetic vision. It was published in 1847 under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell, and attracted considerable critical attention: many people were shocked and horrified by the sheer violence of Emily 's novels .The plot of the Gothic novels typically
fancy , there is a new special focus on realism . For instance, Dickens’s novels added supernatural elements to social criticism; in Great Expectations(1860), Dickens associates the characters of miss Havisham and Magwitch to ghost-like appearance though they are not. Such adaptation can be seen in charlotte and Emily Brontë as well .52 In addition to the setting, many gothic conventions take a new form in the Victorian age. For instance, the theme of the imprisonment, especially of women, both
Beowulf, and in Russia War and Peace, and – starting from the second decade of the twentieth century – James Joyce’s Ulysses. Equally, the names ‘Odysseus’, ‘Gilgamesh’, ‘Charlemagne’ and ‘Captain Ahab’ haunt the memory of the literary audience. In real life, the human species tends to act as heroic as the afore-said names or to be immortalized in works such as the afore-cited ones. Once, an English female had enough ambition to overcome her being declared illegitimate by her father’s parliament and