The Moors

Imagery plays a very significant part in many novels. It sometimes reflects characters personalities, and or feelings. The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, does just that. The landscape and overall setting of the novel are The Moors, which play a huge role in the development of the story and the presentation of the characters. The significance of The Moors is to show the split personalities of characters such as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. The Moors are also significant to the overall meaning and structure of the novel, by showing how the two generations in this novel clash and reflect one another. The moors are the main landscape of this novel. The Moors represent both the good and the bad. "They sat together in a window whose lattice lay back against the wall, and displayed, beyond the garden trees, and the wild green park, the valley of Gimmerton, with a long line of mist winding nearly to its top (for very soon after you pass the chapel, as you may have noticed, the sough that runs from the marshes joins a beck which follows the bend of the glen). Wuthering Heights rose above this silvery vapour; but our
They represent the contrast between the older generation, which included characters such as Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley, Edgar, and Isabella, and the new generation, which included Linton, Cathy Linton, and Hareton. The older generation was full of cruelty, hate, revenge, and jealousy. There was not one good character that was a part of the older generation. Yes, some may have had a good moment or two, but the amount of negativity everyone had, outweighed the good in them. With characters like Hindley, always picking on Heathcliff, and Heathcliff wanting revenge on Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar, and Catherine Earnshaw marring for money and power, they all represent the bad side of The Moors. Everyone is angry jealous, and