Stylistic Features of Wuthering Heights

Stylistic Features Wuthering Heights, the creation of Emily Jane Bronte, depicts not a fantasy realm or the depths of hell. The novel focuses on two main character’s battle with the restrictions of Victorian Society. Wuthering Heights is in the same ethical and moral tradition as the other great Victorian novels. Wuthering Heights was written and published ten years after Victoria's accession and almost at the end of a decade in which fiction for the first time in its history had largely concerned itself with contemporary social problems. Sucksmith says Wuthering Heights that it is "a tragedy in the highest and strictest sense," with universal themes end its Victorian context. Wuthering Heights is a love-story, it might seem pertinent, that what was the attitude of Victorians towards sex, love, and marriage? It is ironic that Catherine chooses to marry Edgar based on his social status and money when she really wants to marry Heathcliff. In Nelly's words, she begins "to adopt a double character" ..., acting one way with the Linton’s, another with Heathcliff she wants to be respectable in society. She will marry Edgar because he is rich and handsome and because he loves her, not because she loves him. Q.D. Leavis believes Brontë chose in order "to fix its happenings at a time when the old rough farming culture, based on a naturally patriarchal family life, was to be challenged, tamed and routed by social and cultural changes; these changes produced Victorian class consciousness and ‘unnatural' ideal of gentility." By examining Wuthering Heights from an educational approach, one is able to understand and realise that the power of education creates separation between the different classes. Class structure, as an approach shows the many inequalities that exist between the different classes. Bronte shows how the control over education allows the upper class power over the working class. It is in this way that education is used as a form of social