Theme Of Nature In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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“The wild rose-brier is sweet in spring,/ Its summer blossoms scent in the air;/ Yet wait till winter comes again,/ And who will call the wild-brier fair!”(Love and Friendship). From the age of sixteen, Emily Bronte used writing and poetry to express her feelings, feelings that were often tied to her love of nature. Socially awkward and lonely, Emily Bronte personally sought out nature as a source of comfort and belonging. As a result, her book Wuthering Heights reflects her interest and connection to nature as the characters and events are often linked and defined by the natural conditions surrounding them. Emily Bronte struggled in life from an early age. Born July 30, 1818 to Maria Bradwell and Patrick Bronte, Emily was the second youngest …show more content…

Wind is one of the major elements used to correspond real life to nature in Bronte’s novel. The name itself, Wuthering Heights, is “a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather” (Bronte 4). One of the first instances of nature in Wuthering Heights is the snow storm. Lockwood moves into Thrushcross Grange and is amazed by everything around him. That is, until he meets his landlord. Heathcliff is rude and hostile towards Lockwood. The next day Lockwood makes his way towards Wuthering Heights just before the storm forms. As Lockwood is leaving in a fit of anger, he gets attacked by a dog and is forced to stay at the Heights for the …show more content…

The book begins in the winter, which can foreshadow the upcoming dreary events that will take place. During his first night at Wuthering Heights, Lockwood has a nightmare which consists of the late Catherine Linton grabbing Lockwood’s hand to let her in. Catherine is reaching for something inside the Heights and is doing so through a guest. Catherine’s death scene is another event where nature is most apparent. When she died, it was pouring rain and a description of Heathcliff standing in it allowing himself to get soaked, “He was there - at least a few yards further in the park; leant against an old ash tree, his hat off, and his hair soaked with the dew that had gathered on the budding branches, and fell pattering round him” (Bronte

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