Discuss the various themes in depth in Wuthering Heights.

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Discuss the various themes in depth in Wuthering Heights.

In the novel Wuthering Heights, a story about love turned obsession, Emily Bronte

Manipulates the desolate setting and dynamic characters to examine the self-destructive

Pain of compulsion.  Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a novel about lives that cross

paths and are intertwined with one another.  Healthcliff, an orphan, is taken in by Mr.

Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights.  Mr. Earnshaw has two children named

Catherine and Hindley.  Jealousy between Hindley and Healthcliff was always a problem.

Catherine loves Healthcliff, but Hindley hates the stranger for stealing his fathers

affection away.  Catherine meets Edgar Linton, a young gentleman who lives at

Thrushcross Grange.  Despite being in love with Healthcliff she marries Edgar elevating

her social standing.  The characters in this novel are commingled in their relationships

with Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.

The series of events in Emily Bronte’s early life psychologically set the tone for

her fictional novel Wuthering Heights.  Early in her life while living in Haworth, near the

moors, her mother died.  At the time she was only three.  At the age of nineteen, Emily

moved to Halifax to attend Law Hill School.  There is confusion as of how long she

stayed here, suggestions ranging from a minimum of three months to a maximum of

eighteen months.  However long, it was here where she discovered many of the ideas and

themes used in Wuthering Heights.  Halifax, just like the Yorkshire moors of York, can

be described as bleak, baron, and bare.  The moors are vast, rough grassland areas

covered in small shrubbery.  The atmosphere that Emily Bronte encompassed herself in

as a young adult, reflects the setting she chose for Wuthering Heights.

The setting used throughout the novel Wuthering Heights, helps to set the mood

to describe the characters.  We find two households separated by the cold, muddy, and

barren moors, one by the name of Wuthering Heights, and the other Thrushcross Grange.

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Each house stands alone, in the mist of the dreary land, and the atmosphere creates a

mood of isolation.  In Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, there are two places

where virtually all of the action takes place.  These two places, Wuthering Heights and

Thrushcross Grange differs greatly in appearance and mood.  These differences reflect the

universal conflict between storm and calm that Emily Bronte develops as the theme in

her novel Wuthering Heights.

Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange both represent several opposing

properties which bring about all sorts of bad happenings when they clash.  For example,

the inhabitants of Wuthering ...

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