Wuthering Heights
The Romantic period was a time of experimentation and stretching of the novel. The novel often proved plain, familiar, and uninviting because of the strict adherence to common life. Novelists were inspired more so by poets and playwrights than other novelists (Romantic Period, The). This allowed for more freedom and expansion into emotional intensity. Writers dared to explore emotions, the imagination, and dreams. Their willingness to experiment created the expansion from realism into something of much more depth. In the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte combines the romantic and realistic styles illustrating the romantic and realistic elements through nature, her characters, and the supernatural. The use of romance and realism in the novel also affect the reader's impressions and reactions, as well as the meaning of the work.One of Bronte's significant romantic elements is her return to nature and her use of setting. The Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange estates are also effectively used to reflect the certain types of people who reside in them. The Wuthering Heights' dark and oppressive state adds on to Hindley's already existing agony from his wife's death and further encourages his isolation fr
Another unpleasant element of realism is the cruelty in human nature. The idea of the Byronic hero is romantic because he is mysterious, passionate, brooding, and lonely all at once. and dashed it full against the speaker's (Edgar's) face and neck" after Edgar had insulted him (Bronte 45). Heathcliff has lived despairingly without Catherine, and so it is not until he dies that he is fully happy because he and Catherine will finally be united in heaven, and ultimately, the power of good prevails the power of evil. The Wuthering Heights estate was built strong to defend itself against the wind. It is through the entwinement of both the old romantic style and the newer realistic style that allows Wuthering Heights to have such an impact on the reader as well as the message of the work. This is exactly the road that Catherine decides to take. When Heathcliff hears that he is frightened by a ghost, he immediately rushes into the room hoping to meet Catherine's spirit. He abuses Isabella mentally and physically and deteriorates Linton's personal being to fulfill his plans for revenge. He is determined to have Linton and young Catherine marry so that he will own both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The wind is constantly blowing in and out through Wuthering Heights just like those who have lived at the Heights have gone in and out. He is an example of both the cruelty and vengefulness in human nature. Heathcliff also uses his son Linton to carry out his vengeance. Thrushcross Grange, however, is much more light and airy.
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