Significance of doors and windows in Wuthering Heights
Significance of doors and windows in Wuthering Heights
Introduction
In literature we can come across many expressions where the word door or window is used either to picture the scene or situation; or where the doors and windows are used metaphorically. The door and window are generally considered to be not only something what keeps warm inside the house and does not let anyone unwanted in.
Door
Metaphorically the meaning of the door can reach much wider range. ‘Door’ has strong link the soul of a man. When expressions containing door are used to describe man’s behaviour or feelings its use bears various values such as open door – an open mind or open heart; close door – detached behaviour and others. Moreover the depicturing of someone’s door can be meant by the author on one side and received by the reader on the other side as description of the owner of the door. The front door of his house was not often used – he was a loner, the front door was armoured and well protect – the owner is either afraid of his house and insides or paranoid.
Another use of doors we can observe in description of places and situations. The state of a door somehow sets the scene in a literature work. This comes from our everyday experience for we judge i.e. houses according the outside marks and door is the most significant one. ‘A battered door’ points to a bad maintenance or busy house, ‘an old wooden door’ can convey a feeling of old house and traditions. In depicturing of situation is more important than the state of the door how the characters in the scene treat it. She left and slammed the door behind – she left the scene angrily, Peter shortly but heavily knocked on the door – a resolute attitude of the character.
These expressions do not have to strictly narrowed to the word ‘door’ only, but can replaced and supported with synonymy i.e. gate (more connected whole estate that to a house) or collocation words such as ‘a threshold’ - a kind of a boundary between outer
Introduction
In literature we can come across many expressions where the word door or window is used either to picture the scene or situation; or where the doors and windows are used metaphorically. The door and window are generally considered to be not only something what keeps warm inside the house and does not let anyone unwanted in.
Door
Metaphorically the meaning of the door can reach much wider range. ‘Door’ has strong link the soul of a man. When expressions containing door are used to describe man’s behaviour or feelings its use bears various values such as open door – an open mind or open heart; close door – detached behaviour and others. Moreover the depicturing of someone’s door can be meant by the author on one side and received by the reader on the other side as description of the owner of the door. The front door of his house was not often used – he was a loner, the front door was armoured and well protect – the owner is either afraid of his house and insides or paranoid.
Another use of doors we can observe in description of places and situations. The state of a door somehow sets the scene in a literature work. This comes from our everyday experience for we judge i.e. houses according the outside marks and door is the most significant one. ‘A battered door’ points to a bad maintenance or busy house, ‘an old wooden door’ can convey a feeling of old house and traditions. In depicturing of situation is more important than the state of the door how the characters in the scene treat it. She left and slammed the door behind – she left the scene angrily, Peter shortly but heavily knocked on the door – a resolute attitude of the character.
These expressions do not have to strictly narrowed to the word ‘door’ only, but can replaced and supported with synonymy i.e. gate (more connected whole estate that to a house) or collocation words such as ‘a threshold’ - a kind of a boundary between outer