The Victorian Era In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë was born into the Victorian period which spanned from 1833-1901. The period is named after Queen Victoria who reigned from 1837-1901. The Victorian era was noted as a golden period as this was a time of great industrialization. In other words, "Writers exposed brutal factory conditions and stinking slums, the dark underside of a manufacturing economy" (Kinsella 806). The people at the time were described as very liberal-minded people who had upcoming ideas and views. "Literature turned inward in the Victorian period. As the empire expanded and people talked of progress and prosperity, there was a brooding, melancholic tone to much of Victorian writing" (Kinsella 951). Wuthering Heights, one of Brontë's only novel written, is considered to be one of her most famous works as it contains a

Her novel commonly shares the ethical ways of the Victorian era. When the novel was first published, there was a ton of backlash on it considering the fact how vulgar and how cruel it was. One of the first reviews of the novel was, "the reader is shocked, disgusted, almost sickened by details of cruelty, inhumanity, and the most diabolical hate and vengeance, and anon come passages of powerful testimony to the supreme power of love-even over demons in the human form" ("The Brontës and Haworth" par 1). Before the novel was published, no one had published something as dramatic as the Brontë sisters writing. Their writing was accurate to their time period and only enraged people. The treatment towards women was unacceptable which is why the Bronte sisters had to go under pen names, "Wuthering Height's violence and passion led the Victorian public and many early reviewers to think that it had been written by a man" ("Emily Bronte" par 19). Her thoughts and feelings were brought into play as she spoke of the Victorian period which was once noted a golden time for industrialization and new