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wuthering heights

wuthering heights In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte developed characters that revolved around actual experiences from her childhood. Emily was born and raised in Thornton,Yorkshire. Haworth, a suburb of Yorkshire in Northern England, was far away from cultural London. The Haworth parsonage was nearly surrounded by a graveyard. Emily and her siblings spent most of their lives Patrick Bronte, an Irish clergyman, was the father of six children. All of the children were very disciplined due to the enforced and cruel discipline of their father. Maria Bronte died of typhus, leaving her children without a motherly figure. Emily was fiercely independent. She was strongly opposed to formal religion. This could have been from the hardship she endured as a child. Emily felt no love from her aunt Branwell, who took care of them when her mother died. Aunt Branwell was a very religious person, yet had no compassion in her life for her nieces. She felt no bond between them (Barrons7). In Jane Eyre this real life situation was recreated between Jane and her Aunt Reed (11). Emily was left in the care of an aunt who had absolutely no affection for her. These real life situations became themes throughout the books written by both Emily and Charlotte Bronte. Emily became very loyal to her father and found it hard to leave her home environment. She stayed with her ill brother until his death in September 1848, at the early age of 30. At the funeral of her brother, Emily caught a cold and never left the house again. She went into a deep depression. Her sisters couldn’t help her. Emily died at the early age of 30, never knowing about the success Wuthering Heights would experience. Her father, Patrick Bronte, outlived all of his children (The Professor 5). After the tragedy of Emily’s death, her sister Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, which became an immediate success. So devastated over the death of his beloved wife, Patrick retreated to his study. To fulfil the duties as a pastor, he left his study. The children were left mostly to themselves, leaving much time to create an imagination through books and writing. Most of these stories and characters were written revolving around the moors which they played by as young children Many themes develop throughout the book Wuthering Heights, such as love, hate, rejection, the risk of loving and revenge. Love is strongest of them all. All of these themes are throughout the character’s lives, but in the end love is the only one that remains. In Wuthering Heights, the love between the characters Heathcliff and Cathy is very difficult. Heathcliff is from a lower economic class and is less educated. He actually works for Cathy’s family as a hired hand. In her heart, she loves Heathcliff but cannot marry him because of his social status and lack of money. Cathy chooses to marry Edgar, a very wealthy man, who does love Cathy. Marrying for the wrong reasons they never find fulfillment. Cathy regrets not following her heart, to be with Heathcliff. Embittered Edgar cannot make Cathy love him. Heathcliff feels rejected, yet he never stops loving Cathy. Cathy knows in her heart she is doing wrong to marry Edgar. She said, “I have no more business marrying Edgar Linton than going to heaven” (68). Edgar is handsome, young, cheerful does love Cathy. The number one reason is money. Cathy believes it will make her happy (66). Without Cathy, Heathcliff feels hatred, but when they are together he can face anything. Heathcliff says he wants to become better for her. When Cathy’s father died, Heathcliff came back and gave Cathy a shoulder to cry on (36). At this point in the story Cathy has married Edgar, and realizes her huge mistake. She tells Heathcliff that when she dies, she will never lie in peace: “I’ll not lie there by myself, they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down under me, but I won’t rest until you are with me. I never will”(108). The love between Heathcliff and Cathy is spiritual , not a physical love (289). All our striving on earth amounts to nothing. The story proclaims that when one dies, then he find his greatest satisfaction. The power of good is greater than the power of evil (279). One theme the characters portrayed was the risk in loving someone. Each must pay the strong price as he lays his heart out on the table. Love takes bloom when he risks himself. Although hurt and rejection may come and be devastating, the joy of a deep commitment and bonding of the two lives will never happen if the risk of being hurt is not taken. As expressed in the saying “It is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” Heathcliff overheard Cathy telling how she could not love him because he was not of the same social class. Heartbroken and crying, he ran out into the storm. Hoping she would be free to love someone else, he left without saying good-bye. Emily Bronte writes about each of her characters in great detail, expressing what they are like and their personalities. She can even change what the reader thinks about them as they develop throughout the story. In the beginning of the book, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is portrayed as a “gentle man by Cathy, but to everyone else he is a monster”(148). He is described as “rough as a saw-edge and hard as whinstone”( 124). Heathcliff is constantly being reminded of his place as a outsider in the Earnshaw house. Heathcliff was a man who was torn between love and hate. Cathy loved him more than anything. She was a wild, young beautiful girl who had a mind of her own. Capable of great sympathy, Cathy is very loyal to those whom she loves. In a weak moment she made a decision about loving Heathcliff and loving prestige, money and social status. All of these proved to be worth nothing but heartache. It was a decision she would The housekeeper, Nelle Dean begins by narrating this story. Nelle is very important to the story because she is a character who is easily accessible to information and views different sides to the story. Nelle interacts with everyone in the house. Sometimes she turns into a gossip and enjoys the conflicts experienced at Wuthering Heights. Nelle often gives details to the reader that help make the scene clear and exact. Emily Bronte uses the power of tones. Within the names of all the places and characters, comes a certain tone. All of the harsh characters have strong names. Even the dogs have strong names. The dogs from Wuthering Heights are Skuller, Gnasher and Wolf. Emily tries to give the reader a sense of peace or a sense of fear without the reader even knowing it. She brings characteristics together, making the characters seem real. All of us have a kind, likable side, yet once in a while our irritating and selfish motives shine through. Throughout all the books that the Bronte sisters wrote, it is the characters which breathe life into the stories. What would these books be without the lovely Catherine Earnshaw, who is idolized by everyone, or the plain but beautiful Jane Eyre? These two characters are the center of their books. They determine the mood of the settings depending on how they are feeling. The Bronte’s use women as the center of attention. They are all young women, approximately the age of nineteen who are in love with men twenty years older than themselves (Professor 221, Jane Eyre 148). This probably was their own fantasy to marry an older man. These women are good examples of women with a purpose. They make goals in their lives and then make it a point to follow their dreams. Emily and Charlotte used their characters to enhance the intensity of their Bibliography:

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