Jan 3, 2010
Wuthering Heights | Wuthering Heights
At a glance:
- Author: Emily Brontë
- First Published: 1847
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Love
- Time of Work: 1771-1803
- Setting: The moors of northern England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Changelings or cuckoos, Class conflict, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Abused persons, Gender roles, Nature, Marriage, Rural or country life, Friendship, Antiheroes, Child abuse, Emotions, Obsession, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Death or dying, Revenge, Lifestyles, Cruelty, Orphans or orphanages, Romanticism
- Locales: Yorkshire, England
Characters Discussed
Heathcliff, a dark-visaged, violently passionate, black-natured man.
A foundling brought to the Earnshaw home at an early age, he is subjected to cruel emotional
sufferings during his formative years. His chief tormentor is Hindley Earnshaw, who is jealous of
his father’s obvious partiality toward Heathcliff. Heathcliff endures his torment with the
sullen patience of a hardened, ill-treated animal, but just as the years add age his suffering adds
hatred in Heathcliff’s nature, and he becomes filled with an inhuman, almost demonic,
desire for vengeance...
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