Wuthering Heights | Wuthering Heights: A Critical Analysis

Roger Moore explores the central themes and elements of Wuthering Heights, focusing on the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff, the seminal setting of the work, and the supernatural.

The only novel written by Emily Brontë before her untimely death, Wuthering Heights occupies a distinctive position between Gothic and Romantic fiction, and it reflects the central thematic interests of both of these genres. Its melodramatic story spans more than three decades, but it is the supranatural passion between Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw and Heathcliff that dominates the entire book, exerting a controlling influence over the lives of Brontë's characters long after Cathy's physical demise. Brontë appears to deliberately cloud the central question of whether her...

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