Wuthering Heights Symbols
Wuthering Heights: A Critical Guide to the Novel
Landscape
• Emily Bronte: landscape near her home in Yorkshire
• Strange, isolated world where passions of all kinds run deep
• Isolated farmhouse
• Not only the setting of the novel, but the nature of the people and their occupations and obsessions
• Earth, air, water. Wrestling trees, changing skies, rocks, wild flowers
• Doorstep of the parsonage: the graveyard, wraps around the house on two sides
• Death was a familiar visitor: Emily lost her mother and two older sisters at age 7
• Death is a major image and pre-occupation of Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's Life
• Borne as the 5th child to the Reverend and Cornish wife
• Emily was 3 years old when her mother died of cancer
• Her sister looked after the family
• At the age 6, she was sent to join the 3 older sisters at a school for children of the clergy
• Emily stayed at home for the next years with her remaining siblings
• They entertained themselves by creating their own worlds. Influenced by Romantic novels.
• Talented in painting. Images of animals.
• During these years she developed her love of the Moors. Brief attempts to live away from home for the rest of the life.
• She went to school with her older sister but was homesick. "Liberty" Her health was broken.
• Leads to Catherine's earnings for the Moors at the end of her life.
• 1838: Post as teacher at Lord Hill near Halifax.
• 1842: Brussels
• Remained home after 1842 to look after her father.
• Plans to open their own school failed, they worked as teachers and governesses
• Value of poems by the three sisters was published disguised
• Love of freedom, earth, air, fire, water, passionate intensity in love
• Wuthering Heights: December 1847.
• Emily died of TV died on the sofa at 30 years old.
• Wish of dying young was created in Heathcliff and Catherine.
Structure and Techniques
• Two narrators, outer and inner frame
• Lockwood: Outer frame of the story. Grange and
Landscape
• Emily Bronte: landscape near her home in Yorkshire
• Strange, isolated world where passions of all kinds run deep
• Isolated farmhouse
• Not only the setting of the novel, but the nature of the people and their occupations and obsessions
• Earth, air, water. Wrestling trees, changing skies, rocks, wild flowers
• Doorstep of the parsonage: the graveyard, wraps around the house on two sides
• Death was a familiar visitor: Emily lost her mother and two older sisters at age 7
• Death is a major image and pre-occupation of Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's Life
• Borne as the 5th child to the Reverend and Cornish wife
• Emily was 3 years old when her mother died of cancer
• Her sister looked after the family
• At the age 6, she was sent to join the 3 older sisters at a school for children of the clergy
• Emily stayed at home for the next years with her remaining siblings
• They entertained themselves by creating their own worlds. Influenced by Romantic novels.
• Talented in painting. Images of animals.
• During these years she developed her love of the Moors. Brief attempts to live away from home for the rest of the life.
• She went to school with her older sister but was homesick. "Liberty" Her health was broken.
• Leads to Catherine's earnings for the Moors at the end of her life.
• 1838: Post as teacher at Lord Hill near Halifax.
• 1842: Brussels
• Remained home after 1842 to look after her father.
• Plans to open their own school failed, they worked as teachers and governesses
• Value of poems by the three sisters was published disguised
• Love of freedom, earth, air, fire, water, passionate intensity in love
• Wuthering Heights: December 1847.
• Emily died of TV died on the sofa at 30 years old.
• Wish of dying young was created in Heathcliff and Catherine.
Structure and Techniques
• Two narrators, outer and inner frame
• Lockwood: Outer frame of the story. Grange and