Your real name is not yet revealed, very interesting. Regarding your life, did you include autobiographical events in the book?
Yes, I used some of my self-experience to develop the novel. First of all the place in which the action takes place, Wuthering Heights which is next to the Moors, is autobiographical, since the place in which I live is also next to the Moors, and is very similar to the description given in the book. Also my father worked as a church rector, and my aunt, who raised us after my mother’s death, was deep religious. She was my inspiration in the creation of Joseph, a very religious character who speaks with a Yorkshire accent, which is also autobiographical since I was born in Yorkshire.
Was the appearance of Catherine’s ghost in chapter 3 real or was it a nightmare of Lockwood?
I never thought of it as real or not, since what I was searching with the incorporation of ghosts, in chapter 3 with Catherine, and in chapter 34 with the appearance of Heathcliff, was the ambiguous effect in the novel, so that the lector thinks and determine weather the sighting of the ghost was real, a nightmare or a superstition. I used these ghosts to symbolize the manifestation of the past in the present, so being real or not doesn’t really affect in what I intended.
Which is your favourite character and why?
I think that my favourite character is Heathcliff because I felt like him, an orphan when my mother died, and when my aunt took care of me. Also the impossibility of having my own name because of my gender and social status and using a pseudonym is reflected with the mistreatment and abuse of Hindley over Heathcliff, so I feel really identified with this character, and that’s why he is my favourite one.
Finally to conclude the interview would you change or add any extra chapters to the novel?
No, I think that what I wrote 3 years ago is what I am think now, I wouldn’t change it because it’s something that identifies me, the novel is not only a novel, it reflects my thinking and my position over the world and society. Nothing in novel should be changed.
Rationale
In this commentary I tried to make a realistic interview with “Emily Bronte”. My principal objective was to make the reader think that who was answering was really her, and also to make questions that the readers of the book normally think of, as “what was your inspiration” or “where would Wuthering Heights be in real life”. To accomplish my aims I researched information in Internet, to know more about her life and problems that she had to face that are reflected in the novel. I added some facts of the novelist, as her pseudonym “Ellis Bell”, which in the interview was revealed to the public. I used her pseudonym in the interview to show that when she published her novel in 1847, she used a male pseudonym to publish her work, because if not, her work would never had been known worldwide, since the masculine society in that time didn’t accepted the publications of female’s work, so I tried to show this fact naming her by her pseudonym “Ellis Bell”.
In conclusion I think that I reached my objectives because with an intense research I could understand why Emily Bronte used each character and why, as for example Heathcliff who I mentioned in the commentary, a character created to reflect what happened to the author in her life, since she was an orphan and was mistreated by the society, as the proper Heathcliff.
