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Wuthering Heights Essay, Research Paper

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights competes with established social reality. Throughout the nineteenth century, the British novel displayed an increasing degree of .realism. (Student Resource Center np). Wuthering Heights is built around a central fall-generally understood to be Catherine and Heathcliff.s fall from hell to heaven (Frederico 322). The first generation of Wuthering Heights failed to develop a mature understanding of themselves and others (322). Modern critics disagree over what the novel is about, but they have differed little from those early reviewers (Student Resource Center np). Wuthering Heights, is the story of a violently tormented child, Heathcliff, who falls madly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, and the violence and misery that comes from their intense love for each other.

Emily Jane Bronte was born on July 30, 1818 in Thorton, Yorkshire, England. She was the fifth of six children, and the fourth daughter. In 1825, Emily was sent to join her sisters Maria, Elizabeth, and Charlotte at school (Telgen 309). Emily.s schooling left no traceable effects. She was there only eight months (Kilvert 108). At home they were taught for the next six years. They were encouraged to read biographies and history (108). Wuthering Heights was her only novel. It was first published in 1847, and a second edition was published in 1850, two years after her death. She also has written one

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hundred and ninety three poems. Emily Bronte spent most of her short lifetime and apart from her own imagination (Telgen 309). In 1842, Charlotte and Emily traveled to Brussels, Belgium and intended to study languages, but returned home later that year because of the death of their aunt, who had left them what money she had (309). Wuthering Heights is a complex novel, and critics have approached it from many different standpoints (Woodford 321). Emily Bronte was a very private person and her reading was very limited and without method (Winifred np). Emily.s father did better for his children. He hired a music teacher for the girls so they could take lessons (Kilvert 108). Emily Bronte.s reputation appeared disproportionate (Bronte Crit. 301). She died shortly after her book was published and just prior to her thirtieth birthday (Woodford 321).

At the beginning of Wuthering Heights, there are two families. The Earnshaws, who lived at Wuthering Heights, and the Lintons, who lived on the neighboring estate of Thrushcross Grange (Winifred np). The Linton.s have two children: Edgar and Isabella. The Earnshaws also have two children: Hindley, and Catherine, a much younger sister. There.s also Heathcliff. He.s about the same age as Catherine (Winifred np). Mr. Lockwood, the newly arrived man from Thrushcross Grange, opens the story with comments about his visit to Wuthering Heights, where he sees his landlord and neighbor, Mr. Heathcliff; Joseph, an old servant; Hareton Earnshaw, an ignorant young man, and the Catherine Heathcliff, widow of Heathcliff.s dead son (Telgen 309). Because of rough weather, Mr. Lockwood had to spend the night in Wuthering Heights. While there, he finds several old books that were Catherine.s mother.s; Catherine Earnshaw. While

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looking through the books, Lockwood sees about the childhood adventures that Catherine Earnshaw, and Heathcliff, and Catherine.s brother, Hindley experienced. Lockwood then falls asleep, and dreams that Catherine Earnshaw comes to the window and begs for him to let her in (Telgen 310). He wakes up screaming, and goes to get Heathcliff, and opens the window to beg for Catherine to return. The next morning, Lockwood feels very sick and gets the servant, Nelly Dean to tell him about her days at Wuthering Heights (310). She tells how Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley, and Catherine.s father brought Heathcliff home, after a trip to Liverpool. After the father died, Hindley became master of the house and guardian of the two children. He also married Frances, a woman from outside the area (Winifred np). Hindley and Frances give birth to a son, Hareton. While giving birth, Frances died. Hindley starts drinking and becomes even more bossy and hateful. When Edgar proposed to Catherine, she accepts, but tells Nelly that she would never have done so if her brother had not turned Heathcliff into someone it would disgrace her to marry (Telgen 310). She says .I wish I could hold you (Heathcliff) .till we both were dead. (Bronte 3). When Heathcliff over hears the comment Catherine makes, he flees to Wuthering Heights before she goes on to explain to Nelly the more depth feelings she has for Heathcliff. Catherine then married Edgar, since her real soul mate, Heathcliff, was forced by Catherine.s brother, Hindley, to leave her alone (Telgen 309). Catherine and Heathcliff still continue to truly love each other. Catherine and Edgar seem very happy, until Heathcliff returns, wealthy and with a good education. He lives at Wuthering Heights, where he gambles Hindley out of all his possessions (309). The book says

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.Hindley Earnshaw falls under Heathcliff.s influence, gambles away his property, and drinks himself to death. (Bronte, 7).

As time passes, Isabella, Edgar.s sister, begins to love Heathcliff. Heathcliff begins to show interest in Isabella, and when Nelly informs Edgar of this, he becomes furious. A fight begins between Edg