Wuthering Heights Analysis

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Sen. Inst. Ali İLYA

ELT 201 – English Literature

December 1, 2014

An Overview to Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë in between October 1845 and June 1846. It is one of the greatest love stories and also most brutal revenge narratives in the English Literature. It is about an outcast, Heathcliff, who falls in love with Catherine and revenges against every obstacle that prevents him from being with her.

The novel includes lots of elements of fiction which are setting, types of characters, method of characterization, plot, conflict, point of view, foreshadowing, allusion, flashback, atmosphere, dialogue, irony, style, structure and panel. All of these compose unity in the novel. These give us clues

It affects on characters and their moods. If we look at the setting in this novel, “Set in the harsh and isolated Yorkshire moors in Northern England, Wuthering Heights practically makes a character out of its geography.” Meanwhile, the story passes in 19th Century.

1801. — I have just returned from a visit to my landlord — the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! (p.1)

There are two main setting; Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. These are opposed in many ways. Wuthering Heights is harsh and cold place, its atmosphere is gloomy. But Thrushcross Grange symbolizes the acquisition of a certain social status. Its atmosphere is passive and calm.

Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff 's dwelling. 'Wuthering ' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. (p.2)

The second one is types of characters which includes round, dynamic, flat and static character. The story starts with Mr. Luckwood who is a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange and social, curious character. His surname symbolizes background. He is static character because he has same mood both in the beginning of the novel and at the end of the

It sometimes makes directly. For example; the narrator tells about anyone directly.

But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure; and rather morose. (p.3)

In the first page, there is an example of one of methods of characterization. It is characters’ words, opinions, feelings etc. It mentions about a word which is misanthropist who enjoys solitude. The other methods are reaction and comments of other character, character’s physical appearance, character’s thought. We can see lots of examples of these in the novel;

The 'walk in ' was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, 'Go to the Deuce: ' even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathizing movement to the words; and I think that circumstance determined me to accept the invitation: I felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than