Wuthering Heights Fiction Analysis

Approaching Wuthering Heights from the Elements of Fiction

In literature, there are several criteria existing in order to examine a literary piece. Some of these criteria are setting, methods of characterization, point of view and other elements. In this article, those criteria will be explicated in accordance with the novel named Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights takes places around two neighbor houses called Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange specific places. Besides, Yorkshire Moors are the geographical location that is a place in England. The conditions of this place and its weather have some effects on people such as changing their actions and moods. To illustrate, while at the very beginning of the novel,

I "never told my love" vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears; she understood me, at last, and looked a return -- the sweetest of all imaginable looks -- and what did I do? I confess it with shame -- shrunk icily into myself, like a snail, at every glance retired colder and farther; till, finally, and, overwhelmed with confusion at her supposed mistake, persuaded her mamma to decamp. By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness, how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.” (Bronte,

This example is important within the context as it is a sign for the understanding of love for Lockwood.

Another important component of the author’s style is irony. There is also used an irony in the piece. Lockwood says “It was so dark that I could not see the means of exit, and, as I wandered round, I heard another specimen of their civil behavior amongst each other.” (Bronte, 13) Lockwood uses the word of “civil” but in fact, he means the opposite meaning of that. It is can be understood from the general circumstances of the members of the house, in general they have bad attitude.

After that, it is basically seen that the houses given in the novel refers to some meanings. When Thrushcross Grange is the symbol of civilized culture, Wuthering Heights is the symbol of simplicity and wildness. It can be understood even from the names of those houses, that is to say, while the meaning of “grange” is for something civilized and proof of urbanity in the nature, “heights” has the opposite meaning which is the location of the top of a mountain and heights are generally considered as wild