Brontë's novel seems to contain all the typical,
             traditional Victorian social values and divisions such
             as the master of the house with servants below him and
             so on. Social distinctions were very much more marked
             and rigidly respected. We first glimpse what Brontë
             might think of social stereotypes and divisions, right
             at the start of the book through Lockwood, and later
             through other narrators such as Nelly Dean.
             Lockwood is seen as the epitome of Victorian social
             values and ideals, he is a normal Victorian gentleman
             an agreeable but shallow character. He is perhaps a
             sketchy attempt to portray a sophisticated townie. He
             is a well meaning but rather confused and superficial
             person, who is naive but also shows signs of maturity
             and intelligence inspite of moments of conceit.
             Lockwood is an honest narrator with no hidden agenda,
             his ordinariness, like Nelly contributes to the
             credibility of the events he is caught up in and hears
             of. Lockwood is used by Brontë to show what Victorians
             would think of what they saw or heard, using their
             social values. Right from the beginning of the book
             Lockwood tries to place Wuthering Heights into his own
             conceptions of what society should be, he tries to put
             people in boxes, to label them, to socially stereotype
             them. Brontë makes a fool of Lockwood, perhaps showing
             that she disagrees with the idea of placing people in
             Lockwood views Wuthering Heights as a fairly
             unfriendly place, and his narrative of the place and
             the people in it suggests strangeness, conflict and
             perhaps the abuse of physical and social power. This
             is clear from Heathcliff's obvious suspicion of
             "He evidently wished no repetition of my intrusion..
             It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared
             It is also made clear from Joseph's sour aloofness
             and in the aggressive manner of the dogs. The
             description of the whole...