Landscape In Wuthering Heights

ban entrance, while conveying a prison-like atmosphere for the souls occupying the house. Paralleling the rough exterior, the house’s interior atmosphere proves to be equally aggressive with its hostile inhabitants and dogs that are “not kept for a pet” (W.H: 4). This is clearly portrayed in Lockwood’s initial visit where he is assaulted by the house dogs, after which he is insulted by Heathcliff who claims the dogs would have disregarded him. (W.H: 5). Through Lockwood’s visit to Wuthering Heights, the reader learns of the hostile atmosphere, seemingly stemming from the presence of Heathcliff, whose brutal treatment draws all liveliness from the inhabiting of the house, creating the air of bitterness and hostility which seems

The beauty of the landscape can engage the readers to follow the story of the novel more closely and benefit from it. The regular emphasis on landscape in Wuthering Heights gives the setting a symbolic importance. Largely, it is composed of moors: wide, wild expanses, high but somewhat soggy, and thus infertile. Moorland cannot be cultivated, and its uniformity makes navigation difficult. It features particularly water logged patches in which people could potentially drown. Thus, the moors serve very well as symbols of the wild threat posed by nature. As a setting for the beginnings of Catherine and Heathcliff 's relationship, the moorland transfers its symbolic associations onto the love

Changes in the weather would thus generally indicate a dramatic shift in the narrative, an oncoming disaster of some sort. The forces of the nature are engaged on the night when Mr. Earnshaw 's died. The writer has used them to prophesize a horrible change. As Nelly Dean relates: “A high wind blustered round the house, and roared in the chimney” (W.H: 37), this signal stands for overthrow of Heathcliff, upon Hindley 's return as head of the family. Ever since Heathcliff has been besmirched to the category of a mere farm worker, and thus an inferior husband where Catherine is concerned, a second forceful storm occurs as he departs from Wuthering Heights. Magnifying the scene is the exclamation that it “was a very dark evening for summer...”, and that the “storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury” (W.H: 75). On the other hand, the separation of the lovers is emphasized with the “violent” wind and thunder breaking a nearby tree in half, resulting in its falling across the roof, sending a “clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen fire”