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    Tthe representation of home in Wuthering Heights. The ideology of the mid-nineteenth century limited the role of Victorian women to the domestic sphere. The Victorian construction of the domestic ideal saw the woman as devoted‚ busy and diligent mother‚ bearing‚ raising and educating her children. Anchored to the home and providing a secure‚ cosy space for a husband‚ as a haven from his public life in the outside world‚ the woman and home became the ‘expression of British Victorian morality..

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    ROMANTIC LOVE IN WUTHERING HEIGHTS Romantic love takes many forms in Wuthering Heights: the grand passion of Heathcliff and Catherine‚ the insipid sentimental languishing of Lockwood‚ the coupleism of Hindley and Frances‚ the tame indulgence of Edgar‚ the romantic infatuation of Isabella‚ the puppy love of Cathy and Linton‚ and the flirtatious sexual attraction of Cathy and Hareton. These lovers‚ with the possible exception of Hareton and Cathy‚ are ultimately self-centered and ignore the needs

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    The setting used throughout the novel Wuthering Heights helps to set the mood to describe the characters. We find two households separated by the cold‚ muddy‚ and barren moors‚ one by the name of Wuthering Heights‚ and the other by the name of Thrushcross Grange. Each house stands alone‚ in the mist of the dreary land‚ and the atmosphere creates a mood of isolation. In the novel‚ Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange are the two places where virtually all

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    Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights‚ readers are introduced to a variety of conflicts and clashing characteristics. Even though this is common in many novels‚ many of these conflicts take place within one character then progress into external conflicts between characters. For example what caused Catherine to pick Edgar over Heathcliff? Did she love Edgar more? Or was her love for him forged by her superego as defined in Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams? Even the character herself is unsure

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    of Emily Bronte ’s Wuthering Heights‚ directed by Peter Kosminsky‚ it is harder to identify the gothic elements as they are more obscure‚ therefore making it difficult to recognize as a gothic work. Although there is a vast difference between

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    Wuthering Heights contained many themes throughout the book. However‚ there are some that were more prominent. Revenge and social classes surround the novel. It shows how the two main charactersHeathcliff and Catherine‚ were brought together and had this strong connection between them‚ but the division of society separated them from happiness. Revenge acts like a stimulus for Heathcliff throughout the plotline and builds up the story so it is not some let down love story. The novel opens up with

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    Wuthering Heights A Brief Summary Many people‚ generally those who have never read the book‚ consider Wuthering Heights to be a straightforward‚ if intense‚ love story — Romeo and Juliet on the Yorkshire Moors. But this is a mistake. Really the story is one of revenge. It follows the life of Heathcliff‚ a mysterious gypsy-like person‚ from childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant‚

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    April 25th‚ 2012 Word Count: 818 The gothic novel‚ Wuthering Heights‚ is designed to both horrify and entertain readers with scenes of passion and cruelty. The novel is set around the time period of the late 1700’s and early 1800’s‚ with most of it taking place on the two neighboring houses‚ Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The lead characterHeathcliff‚ is a huge part in making the novel seem cruel. Heathcliff symbolizes evil while Emily Bronte portrays him as a jealous‚ controlling

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    motifs throughout ‘Wuthering Heights’ Victorian age was the time of great‚ economical‚ social and political change as it was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Hence‚ it was a time of great prosperity for some but an object of poverty for others. The determining factor of which category society these people fell under was‚ unfortunately‚ left up to colour and class. Rural life was governed by street societal hierarchy which Bronte accurately depicted in ‘Wuthering Heights’. In addition

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    Love and Betrayal Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is considered to be one of the greatest novels written in the English language. Due to Heathcliff and Catherine’s love relationship‚ Wuthering Heights is considered a romantic novel. Their powerful presence permeates throughout the novel‚ as well as their complex personalities. Their climatic feelings towards each other and often selfish behavior often exaggerates or possibly encapsulates certain universal psychological truths about humans. The role

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