Explain and discuss the importance of the setting to the actions of the characters and events in the novels ' Wuthering Heights' and ' I'm The King OF The Castle.'

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Explain and discuss the importance of the setting to the actions of the characters and events in the novels ‘ Wuthering Heights’ and ‘ I’m The King OF The Castle.’

I have been studying two books named Wuthering Heights and I’m The King Of The Castle. Wuthering Heights was written by a well known aunthor in the eighteen hundreds called Emily Bront. The storyline is based around an obselete house called wuthering heights, the house is set on a hill where it is attacked from every side by horrific weather.

The house is depicted as having a dark, gloomy and uncomfortable atmosphere about it, in the first chapter we read Lockwoods first impression concerning ‘Wuthering Heights’ Before passing the threshold I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carvings lavished over the front and especially the principal door. The description of  ‘ grotesque carvings lavished ‘ gives the house a dark,murky and gothic atmosphere. It even gives the reader the impression that the house is evil and that the owner is possessed. The interior of the house is welcoming at first ‘ the apartment and furniture would have been nothing extraordinary as belonging to a homely, northen farmer,’ Lockwood describes the house as friendly from the inside until he comes in to contact with Heathcliffe. Lockwood suddenly changes his opinion. I think he does this because of Heathcliffes appearance, eg his dark skin and mannor, ‘ dark skinned gypsy in aspect in dress mannors of a gentleman’.

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As Lockwood takes a seat ‘at the end of the hearthstone’ he begins to ‘carress’ Heathcliffes dog, again Heathcliffes fierceness is shown as he growled ‘ you’d better leave the dog alone’ this gives the reader the impression that Heathcliffe is usually like this and is a very easily frustrated and bad tempered character as Lockwood is only a visiter to the house. Heathcliffes is more than bad mannored and rude, his temper and first impression he leaves shows us that he does not really care what other people think of him. He gives Lockwood the same first impression that ...

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