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The Importance of the Setting in Wuthering Heights Analysis
Gothic fiction
Wuthering Heights
The setting of a gothic novel has been described as, “usually a large mansion or remote castle which is dark and foreboding: usually isolated from neighbors” In Wuthering Heights, Bronte has used Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights to depict isolation and separation. The dark and foreboding environment described at the beginning of the novel foreshadows…
| genre | Tragedy, gothic |
|---|---|
| originally published | December 1847 |
| description | Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. |
| characters | Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, Mr Lockwood, Edgar Linton |
| quotations | “Do I want to live? . . . [W]ould you like to live with your soul in the grave?” “Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! “In my soul and in my heart, I’m convinced I’m wrong!” “Honest people don’t hide their deeds.” “Nelly, I am Heathcliff! “I’m tired of being enclosed here.,“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” “Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.” |
| information | Adapted from: Wuthering Heights Text: Wuthering Heights online |
