How are the following first presented in Wuthering Heights

We are able to see in the first chapter that, Wuthering Heights, is a dark and isolated place. This is the area in which the character of Heathcliffe lives along with other members of his household. He is shown to live in a dark dwelling and it is described as being ‘the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed to stormy weather’. Due to the name ‘Wuthering’ also meaning stormy we are able to get a clear view that the area is gloomy and murky representing and almost gothic feel. It could also imply that the character of Heathcliffe may have a ‘stormy’ persona to him. Lockwood the narrator describes the place as a ‘perfect misanthropist’s heaven’ possibly meaning that everyone who lives in the area has negative feelings towards other characters. This is a perfect description on the inhabitant of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliffe, as he is seen to repel people instead of embracing them into his life. We see that in front of the house ‘gaunt thorns are stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun’. Even the vegetation does not want to be part of the area possibly symbolising how some of the inhabitants cant bare to be there also. The thorns are craving some rays of sunlight as they stretch themselves towards the sky. This also could possibly represent how the characters are so trapped in this dismal atmosphere they are trying to find some sense of happiness and light bringing to their lives. It also shows that nothing is able to grow normally here, just as the characters find it difficult to fulfil their own strong passions by being simply happy. As Lockwood describes the house we see ‘the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall’. The deep sets of the windows are very similar to Heathcliffe’s eyes as his ‘black eyes withdraw’ into his face. The corners of the house ‘are defended with large jutting stones’ showing how this house is meant to be impenetrable also. The overall gothic description of the outside of Wuthering Heights reveals