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Wuthering heights
Emily published only one novel, Wuthering Heights, but this single work has its place among the masterpieces of English literature.Emily was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of
England and died of tuberculosis in the late 1848.When Bronte sisters are young, their father asked them to read many books: the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott and many others.The children also read enthusiastically articles on current affairs.Unlike Charlotte, Emily had no close friends.She wrote a few letters and was interested in mysticism.Her first novel, Wuthering Heights, a story-within-a-story, did not gain immediate succe as Charlotte's Jane Eyre, but it has got later fame as one of the most intense novels written in the English language.In contrast to Charlotte and Anne, whose novels take the form of autobiographies written by authoritative and reliable narrators, Emily introduced an unreliable narrator, Lockwood.Lockwood, the narrator, is a gentleman visiting the Yorkshire moors where the novel is set, and of Mrs.Dean, housekeeper to the Earnshaw family, who had been witne of the life of the original owners of the Heights.Bronte draws a
powerful picture of the strange man Heathcliff, who is brought to Heights from the streets of Liverpool by Mr.Earnshaw.Heathcliff is treated as Earnshaw's own children, Catherine and Hindley.After Mr.Earnshaw’s death Heathcliff is bullied by Hindley, who loves Catherine, but she marries Edgar Linton.Heathcliff 's destructive force is unleashed, and his first victim is Catherine, who dies giving birth to a girl, another Catherine.Isabella Linton, Edgar's sister, whom he had married, flees to the south.Their son Linton and Catherine are married, but always sickly Linton dies.Hareton, Hindley's son, and the young widow became close.Increasingly isolated and alienated from daily life, Heathcliff experiences visions, and he longs for the death that will reunite him with Catherine.In early time, there are many critics on this novel.Some
people called it a “strange, inartistic story”, but commented that every chapter seems to contain a “sort of rugged power”.It
supported the second point made in the Athenaeum, suggesting that the general effect of the novel was “inexpreibly painful”, but adding that all of its subjects were either “utterly hateful or thoroughly contemptible”.There some symbols in the novel, for example, the moors
and the ghosts.The constant emphasis on landscape within the text of
Wuthering Heights endows the setting with symbolic
importance.Moorland cannot be cultivated, and its uniformity makes navigation difficult.It features particularly waterlogged patches in which people could potentially drown.Thus, the moors serve very well as symbols of the wild threat posed by nature.As the setting for the beginnings of Catherine and Heathcliff’s bond, the moorland transfers its symbolic
aociations onto the love affair.Ghosts appear throughout Wuthering Heights, as they do in most other works of Gothic fiction, yet Bronte always presents them in such a way that whether they really exist remains ambiguous.Thus the world of the novel can always be
interpreted as a realistic one.Certain ghosts—such as
Catherine’s spirit when it appears to Lockwood in Chapter III—may be explained as nightmares.The villagers’ alleged sightings of Heathcliff’s ghost in Chapter XXXIV could be
dismied as unverified superstition.Whether or not the ghosts are “real,” they symbolize the manifestation of the past within the present, and the way memory stays with people, permeating their day-to-day lives.I think the novel suggests us that lovers should have a healthy love, and put the needs of the beloved first.
