Wuthering Heights
Throughout the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontė effectively utilizes weather and setting as methods of conveying insight to the reader of the personal feeling of the characters. While staying at Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood made a visit to meet Mr. Heathcliff for a second time, and the horrible snow storm that he encounters is the first piece of evidence that he should have perceived about Heathcliff's personality. The setting of the moors is one that makes them a very special place for Catherine and Heathcliff, and they are thus very symbolic of their friendship and spirts. The weather and setting are very effective tools used throughout the end of the novel as well, for when the weather becomes nice it is not only symbolic of the changing times, and the changing people, but also a new beginning. During his stay at Thrushcross Grange Mr. Lockwood made the perilous journey to Wuthering Heights only a few times. On the occasion of his second visit, "the snow began to drive thickly"(7) during his walk, and this horrible weather should have been foreshadowing to Lockwood about Heathcliff's, and the other member's of the household's true personalities. Upon arriving he was forced to bang continually upon the door b
The two characters that the moors are most symbolic of, however, are Heathcliff and Catherine Linton. and at length took up a permanent situation on one side of the wall, near the road, where, . She was desperate for Heathcliff to come home, and without Catherine even speaking, the reader can know of this desperation. Toward the end of the novel, around the time of Lockwood's return to visit Wuthering Heights, the weather suddenly becomes kinder and the setting more amiable. Heathcliff hears her declaration and runs off into the moors. Upon reaching the pass between the Heights and the Grange, Heathcliff did not continue to direct Lockwood's travels. Not long after Heathcliff leaves the vicinity of the Grange, a "storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury"(78), and Catherine refuses to sleep without her love present in the Heights. The path that is used as a means of connection between the two houses does well to exemplify the feeling contained within each. Upon walking up to the door of the Heights "all that remained of day was a beamless, amber light along the west' but [he] could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass by that splendid moon"(286). One evening Catherine makes the decision to marry Edgar Linton, and not her true love Heathcliff. Within the last paragraph of the novel the reader becomes very aware of the end to the story, this is because of the use of setting to donate the feeling of an end to the reader and a "quiet slumber for the sleepers in that quiet earth"(315).
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