Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte:
Nature and weather: play a very important role → described as the time and place in which an event occurs.
It helps the reader to understand where the character is comming from.
The weather reflects the character’s mind and it also can predict the future condition.
Foreshadow positive events or moods and poor weather is their tool for setting the tone for negative events or moods.
When the character is very worry, sad and unhappy, there is always cloudy and rainy.
If there is any miserable thing happens, it always is stormy or snowy with heavy rain or wild wind outside.
When there is calm and no any sorrow, the weather is fine.
In the opening of Jane Eyre, when Jane was living in Gateshead, she was reading while an unpleasant visit of John Reed was foreshadowed: ” After it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud: hear, a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub”
After Jane was publicly and falsely accused of being a liar by Mr. Brocklehurst, an upcoming positive event was predicted when Jane described her surroundings: “Some heavy clouds swept from the sky by a rising wind, had left the moon bare; and her light streaming in through a window near, shone full both on us and on the approaching figure, which we at once recognize as Miss Temple”
Wuthering Heights is a house set high upon a hill where is exposed to extreme weather conditions. The name of the place itself is symbolic of its nature, "Wuthering being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather."
The Weather in Wuthering Heights symbolizes how the characters are at the mercy of forces they cannot control. At the beginning of the novel, Lockwood thinks he can travel through the storm, and he ends up failing.
Wind and rain are present when Mr. Earnshaw dies, when Heathcliff departs from Wuthering Heights, and when Heathcliff dies→ At the