The Language Of Language In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this essay is to explore and analyse the language of spaces and the way they were employed to create one of the most controversial stories of the English language, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.

This essay attempts to study and investigate the significance of spatial structures and their elements in relation to English fiction. As it appears, there are common characteristics between architecture and literature.

On a basic level, both architecture and literature exist within the boundaries of time and place. In order to understand the link better, we need to draw parallels between them.

THE LINK

For most of us, actions are rooted in setting, and revealed through place and our experiences in it. Literature also has to work in sync with place,

When we form attachments to a place, we begin identifying ourselves with it. The interaction between people and place has ramifications not only on identity, but also in defining the way we perceive things.

The purpose of architecture is to make a place and the target of language is to make sense. Language, like architecture is born, grows, develops and may or may not die. Just the way an architect designs and builds a physical structure, the author builds a narrative by carefully arranging patterns, sequences, and proportions.

I aim to examine the architectural structures, spaces and elements described in Wuthering Heights, drawing parallels with their social and narrative structures, while also analysing their effect on the characters and the reader himself.

Emily Bronte’s decision to title her work “Wuthering Heights” shows that she deliberately centred it on the notion of place. She chose a name that one would associate with feelings of apprehension, as opposed to something more subtle.

Since more clarity is essential, a glimpse at the author’s life and her perspectives on it is deemed