Wuthering Heights

For all the pain in this novel, it does have a happy ending. Heathcliff and Catherine's love ends tragically with her early death, but the next generation rights the wrongs of the past. Heathcliff...

Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights as a poor stable-lad and returns three years later as a wealthy gentleman. It is never explained what he did during this time or how he made his money, and the...

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is a sad, haunting tale of Heathcliff, his love for Catherine, and his inability to find true happiness. The story takes place in Yorkshire, and is a completely...

Heathcliff embarrasses Hareton most by continuing to raise him in the fashion of his revenge. He is determined to treat Hareton, the son of Hindley, worse then he was treated by Hindley. Hareton...

Nelly is certainly not reliable. She makes her dislike of Catherine quite clear and even when Catherine does deserve some sympathy (such as when she's worried about her decision to marry Edgar...

A metaphysical novel that separates and intertwines the wild and the tame, the intellectual and the passionate, the old and the young, the refined and the rustic, Wuthering Heights contains several...

In her critical essay, "The Waif at the Window: Emily Brontë's Feminine 'Bildungsroman,'" Annette R. Federico writes, ...in terms of the first generation, Wuthering Heights is not a Bildungsroman...

Wuthering Heights is both of its time and sui generis—one of a kind. It is quite different in tone from the novels of Dickens, for instance, and of most Victorians, including other women authors...

Heathcliff is driven by a need for vengeance, not just against Hindley or the Lintons, but against an entire social order that seeks to exclude him. Heathcliff embraces his otherness, and in fact...

Catherine and Heathcliff grow up as neglected and, in Heathcliff's case, abused children. They are left orphaned when their father (Heathcliff's stepfather) dies. Their guardian, Catherine's older...

It is indeed ironic that Heathcliff should be regarded as the epitome of barbarism—of all that is wild, impulsive, and savage—when it is the supposedly respectable Hindley Earnshaw who behaves...

It may appear to readers that Heathcliff does indeed kill himself, albeit in a highly unusual manner. However, this is not explicitly stated in the novel, so there is no way to know for sure...

It can be hard to summarize the "message" of Wuthering Heights. The meaning of a novel such as this is often as dependent on the person doing the reading and the circumstances in which it is read...

Isabella Linton, of Thrushcross Grange, is the sister of Edgar Linton; the man who will become Catherine Earnshaw's husband, much to Heathcliff's chagrin. Isabella is a lady. She is brought up in a...

Having settled himself in the "clothespress," Lockwood discovers the diaries of Catherine Earnshaw and is amused by her caricature of Joseph, crudely drawn, but accurate in its depiction of the...

Published in 1847, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a romantic novel with intricate ties to the idea of nature and the sublime. Developed through Romantic artists and poets, the idea of sublime...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a prime example of the Gothic romance genre. As stated above, the presence of the supernatural, isolated settings, and the drama surrounding the characters'...

We have no record as to why Emily Bronte chose the narrators she did. If we work backwards, however, it is clear she needed narrators to fulfill two functions: first, to show how different the...

In chapter 2 of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heightswe find Lockwood in a very awkward situation. He enters Wuthering Heights and, from the moment he goes inside, he sees some of the weirdest...

Pathetic fallacy is a key element of this novel, but it is far more apparent in Chapter 9, where Heathcliff's rage and incipient anger is experienced as the storm that blows over the tree into...

In an era of sentimentality about the patriarchal family and the domestic hearth (Dicken's A Christmas Carol, with its poor but idyllic Cratchit family, was written only a few years before...

The Earnshaws, who live at Wuthering Heights, are a dysfunctional family. Mr. Earnshaw picks up Heathcliff, an orphan waif, on the streets of Liverpool and adopts him. Mr. Earnsahw ends up favoring...

The supernatural element of Chapter 3 of Wuthering Heights initiates Gothic motifs as well as establishing some of the tension among characters. When Zillah sneaks Lockwood into a room that...

This quote comes from Chapter 11 and is uttered by Cathy to her husband, Edgar Linton, after a confrontation that he and Heathcliff have had earlier on. Edgar is of course extremely frustrated...

It is in Chapter Five of this novel that we can find the answer to this question. As the health of Mr. Earnshaw begins to fail and the animosity between Hindley and Heathcliff becomes ever more...

Lockwood commits several blunders in Chapter 2 of Wuthering Heights, starting perhaps with his initial assumption that climbing over the locked gate to pay an unannounced visit to Wuthering Heights...

A gamin (a street "urchin" or homeless child) whom Mr. Earnshaw brings back with him on his three-day trip to Liverpool, the newly named Heathcliff is named after an Earnshaw child who has died....

Wuthering Heights is full of dualities in themes, settings, characters, and symbols. As the other editor has said, I would classify the symbols are "wild" vs. "civilized" rather than "good" vs....

You might want to consider the classic Gothic technique of narration. We have framing narratives and multiple layers of narrative. At some points, we have Lockwood telling us what was told to him...

That's a huge question. The conventional wisdom is that Wuthering Heights is a novel of grand passions, filled with Gothic touches, while Jane Eyre is more buttoned down, more concerned with...

While it could plausibly be argued that Wuthering Heights is a cautionary tale about the dangers of loving too much, that was not Bronte's intent. But let's go through how that argument would look:...

While Linton Heathcliff's specific illness is never spelled out, the evidence within the text points to tuberculosis. Throughout his life, he is constantly sick with one ailment or another,...

In the novel 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte, Catherine and Heathcliffe's bond is os close,even as children, that they sometimes feel like one person. As believers in the Christian faith the...

Heathcliff carefully explains to Nelly Dean why he is not taking his final revenge. Heathcliff says he could exact revenge by separating the young lovers as he and Catherine were cruelly separated....

Nelly goes to visit Isabella, who was recently married to Heathcliff and is now living at Wuthering Heights. There, she runs into Heathcliff, who asks after Catherine's health. Nelly tells him that...

As Catherine explains to Nelly in a moment of anguish after she accepts Edgar's marriage proposal, she "loves" Edgar. She then proceeds to describe what that love is, saying she loves him because...

The death of his wife leads to a pattern of self-destruction for Hindley. He begins to drink and gamble heavily. This leads him deeper and deeper into depression. Hindley takes no interest in his...

Wuthering Heights is quite distinct from most novels of the Victorian Age. She does set it in the Yorkshire moors of northern England, a rural, isolated region. She also depicts the strict social...

This quote comes from Chapter Three of this incredible novel and comes just before the strange dream that Lockwood has as he falls asleep in Wuthering Heights, having been forced to stay the night...

One way of answering this question would be to point to the way in which marriage between the various characters of this novel actually acts as a foil, as in the majority of cases, marriage places...

Chapter Six is the first chapter where the contrasting worlds of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange collide, and it is clear from the description of the Grange that Heathcliff narrates to...

Note that this is a comment made by Nelly Dean to Lockwood as she narrates the past events that have led up to the present. This comment describes the gradual change in her feelings towards Linton,...

At the beginning of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood gets trapped at the Heights by a snowstorm. He is allowed to sleep in a certain forbidden bedroom, which used to be Catherine Earnshaw's. While...

The passionate love that forms the basis of the narrative in Bronte's Wuthering Heights is an all- encompassing expression. Given how it is shown in different contexts with the same intensity, it...

You will probably get many opinions on this. I used to believe that Heathcliff was not a realistic character. I used to believe he was symbolic of the themes of evil, passion, obsession, revenge,...

Heathcliff claims to have come for a short visit only, "just to have one glimpse of (Catherine's) face, a start of surprise, perhaps, and pretended pleasure", yet he tells Nelly that he...

Throughout Wuthering Heights Catherine Earnshaw is torn between the dictates of established social convention and the emotional demands of the heart. Each side of this terrible quandary is...

When Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights people were shocked. How, one wonders, was she able to depict violent human nature, given the seeming uneventfulness of her life? She was the daughter of...

Edgar Linton blames Catherine for Hareton’s outburst, because she did not pay attention to him. When Catherine arrives, Hareton wants her to see that he has learned to read. Catherine calls him a...

In Wuthering Heights, Lockwood and Nelly are complementary narrators. They are foils in nearly every way. Lockwood; Nelly male; female stuffy (formal) style; plain (informal, intimate) style...