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    In Emily Brontë’s only book Wuthering Heights‚ her descriptions of the two houses Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange create distinct atmospheres that mirror the actions of the inhabitants that reside within them. Although they lie within miles of each other‚ they are two very different places. Never have two more opposing places existed than Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights is a representation of uncontrollable emotions‚ lack of discipline and chaos. Thrushcross Grange

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    Review Sheet for Wuthering Heights 1. What techniques are used in the characterization of Heathcliff? Effects? Heathcliff is associated with evil and darkness from the beginning of the novel. "I felt his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows." (1) When Lockwood sees Heathcliff’s garden (perhaps a symbol for Heathcliff) "the earth was hard with a black frost…the air made me shiver through every limb." (6) When we see Heathcliff when he is first brought into the Earnshaw household

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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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    Wuthering Heights notes Chapter One Summary: Writing in his diary in 1801‚ Lockwood describes his first days as a tenant at Thrushcross Grange‚ an isolated manor in thinly populated Yorkshire. Shortly after arriving at the Grange‚ he pays a visit to his landlord‚ Mr Heathcliff‚ a surly‚ dark man living in a manor called Wuthering Heights. During the visit‚ Heathcliff seems not to trust Lockwood‚ and leaves him alone in a room with a group of snarling dogs. Lockwood is saved from the hounds by a

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    normal realm of things. This reflects her childhood in the book by stating the imaginary characters in Wuthering Heights that lived in Yorkshire‚ Haworth. Algernon Charles Swinhurne‚ “Emily Brontë‚” in the Athenaeum‚ No 2903‚ June 16‚ 1883. This book shows the Gothic Romance in Wuthering Heights the manor house appears to be dark but also a nice home. The description of the Wuthering Heights manor and the Thrushcross Grange manor seems to be a medieval style homes‚ with massive stoned walls.

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    Wuthering Heights - Feminist Criticism The feminist criticism is perhaps the perspective that best applies to WutheringHeights. For one‚ any personal possessions of a woman goes straight to the husband once she marries. It’s like the woman doesn’t even exist because she has to live under the husband’s name‚ who now owns her belongings. Thrushcross Grange would have been Isabella’s had she not married Heathcliff but‚ since she did marry him‚ Heathcliff automatically becomes the owner. In addition

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    Repetition is a technique that Bronte employs in Wuthering Heights. She uses repletion to convey the idea that nothing ever ends in the world of the novel. Time seems to run in cycles and the horrors of the past repeat themselves in the present an example of this is Heathcliff being forbidden an education and then Hareton being forbidden an education “he was never taught to read or write”. The way that the names of the characters are recycled‚ so that the names of the characters from the younger

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    "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë is a forbidden love story that has a loveless controversial marriage and a "love after death" scenario. Brontë shows emotions in her novel that force characters to do things that are not a "traditional" behavior for a person. Although the main theme throughout "Wuthering Heights" is love‚ it is equally based on revenge. Examples of that revenge are mainly between the characters Heathcliff and Hindley. For example‚ when Hindley decided to make Heathcliff’s life

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    The Importance of the Setting in Wuthering Heights There are numerous approaches to analyzing and understanding a novel‚ with the setting being one of utmost importance. It is one of the first aspects noted by readers because it can potentially increase their identification of specific motifs‚ and subsequently themes‚ through repetitively emphasizing the natural setting that penetrates conversations‚ incidences‚ thoughts‚ and behaviors. The author typically creates a setting that facilitates

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    adapted into a film directed by Kenneth Branagh. This film can be perceived as a typical gothic piece because the archetypal elements such as dark setting‚ horror‚ and suspense are apparent. However‚ in the film adaptation 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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