The love of Cathy turns into an obsession for revenge. Heathcliff and Cathy curse and fought each other giving each other no peace. They rejected heaven and God. The two were angry with each other and proclaimed no peace in life or death; this explains why their spirits and souls were wandering haunting or getting haunted. Ghosts cannot separate from the good or evil. The main characters Mrs. Dean, Heathcliff, Joseph and Cathy believed in ghosts. The children of the main characters did not believe in ghosts representing a new beginning.
Hareton, Catherine, and Linton chose not to speak of ghosts. Cathy's ghost may be a figment of the imagination, probably just a representation of memories. Weather, Wind and Trees. Weather, wind, and trees are natural events used in the novel to represent different emotions and tone of the circumstances in the novel.
The blowing wind and rain naturally represent a storm that depicts anger and violence. A cool breeze represents peace, hope, and goodness. The author has used pathetic fallacy skillfully using weather patterns to reflect emotions and events at any given point in time. The weather can change one's feelings symbolically. Rain and snow represent violent emotions.
Snow represents coldness of the heart, a murderer. The Moors. A moor is a barren land unsuitable for farming. Moor symbolically represents the concept of a place between life and death, a grey area between good and evil. Wuthering Heights represents the epitome of evil while Thrushcross represents the good physically.
The moors would be a place between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The moors to Cathy and Heathcliff represent freedom from religion, social barriers, and their happiness. The two are neither in heaven nor hell but roaming the moor without inhibitions. A moor is a place of no rules, no culture, and no social class. A home with no rules a safe place. The dog is used symbolically with great insights.
A dog represents protection as well as violence. The wild and desolate moors are set against the drama unfolding in the two houses. But as much as there is a nature versus culture theme going on here, Wuthering Heights the house is very much associated with nature, and so it can't really be put in neat opposition to it. As Lockwood explains at the novel's opening, "Wuthering" is "a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather" 1.
Translation: bring a jacket. But the moors mean different things to different people. To Lockwood, the moors serve as a confusing expanse that's almost impossible to navigate on his own. The moors confuse him, especially when it snows. He sees them as "one billowy white, ocean" 4.
The boggy parts of the moors can mean death for some people. When Heathcliff imprisons Nelly and Cathy in Wuthering Heights, he spreads a rumor in Gimmerton that the two had "sunk in the Blackhorse marsh" and that he had rescued them But as much as the moors represent threat and menace, they are also full of mystery and mysticism.
They are a source of comfort and a respite from the prison-like atmosphere of Wuthering Heights. To Catherine and Heathcliff, the moors exist as a supernatural, liberating, and boundaryless region. For them, the ultimate freedom is associated with wandering on the moors.
They often describe their love and their own individual identities through metaphors of nature. Catherine's dying wish to be released on to the moors reinforces Heathcliff's analogy of Catherine as an oak contained by the strictures of Thrushcross Grange: [Catherine:] "I wish I were out of doors — I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy […] I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills. Open the window again wide […]. Catherine justifies her marriage to Edgar Linton using comparisons to the natural world: "My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods.
Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath a source of little visible delight, but necessary. It is "bleak, hilly, coal country" to Linton's "fertile valley" 8. First of all, life at the Heights is not exactly civilized; second, the very name of the house reflects its surroundings. Like her mother, Cathy yearns to escape the confines of the house and play on the moors.
Hareton slowly earns her trust by giving her a guided tour of some of the natural features of the surrounding countryside. There are dogs all over this novel, and they actually play a pretty big role in propelling the plot. Like the Lintons and Earnshaws, the dogs are all related. Dogs figure in several major scenes and tend to be symbolically linked to Heathcliff. For example, when Lockwood tries to enter Wuthering Heights at the beginning of the novel, he finds not only several locked gates but also a pack of dogs preventing entry.
But Lockwood doesn't get the hint. When Catherine and Heathcliff take their pivotal journey down to Thrushcross Grange, they share a glimpse of the sniveling Linton children fighting over a dog 6.
When Catherine is bit by Skulker, one of the Lintons' dogs, she is compelled to stay at the Grange to recuperate, which changes her relationship to Heathcliff forever. Finally, let's not forget Heathcliff's treatment of Isabella's springer, Fanny. As they elope from Thrushcross Grange, Heathcliff uses a handkerchief to hang the dog by his neck on a bridle hook — definitely some foreshadowing of the treatment his new bride will receive.
Well, we know by the book's title that houses are pretty important here. The nesting narrative betrays the innocence of both as unbiased; the former being too close to events, and the latter was not involved at all. Franciska Manjunath Pundit. What is the main conflict in Wuthering Heights? The main conflict in Wuthering Heights is the internal struggle of Heathcliff. He longs to spend the rest of his life with Catherine. The external conflict is in Catherine's longing to be the "greatest women of he neighborhood.
Starr Handzhaevsky Pundit. Is Wuthering Heights difficult to read? Wuthering Heights is a more difficult book to understand than Jane Eyre, because Emily was a greater poet than Charlotte. Her experience, though more intense, is on a level with our own. Iraitz Hagerbaumer Pundit. What are the symbols in Wuthering Heights? Weather, Wind, and Trees. Coloma Rujenkov Pundit. What do the two houses in Wuthering Heights represent?
The two houses , Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, represent opposing worlds and values. The novel has not one but two distinctly different narrators, Nelly and Mr.
Xiuzhu Habitsov Pundit. How is Edgar Linton a foil to Heathcliff? Edgar is the father of his and Catherine's daughter, Catherine Linton , and the brother of Isabella Linton. He is the foil of Heathcliff as a character, as shown by his tender, kind, loving, gentle, and weak personality as opposed to Heathcliff's savage, tyrannical nature.
Cristabel Events Teacher. What literary period is Wuthering Heights? The Romantic period in literature is generally defined as the late 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights , published in , is considered a classic of Romantic literature. How does Heathcliff die? Why is Lockwood initially interested in Cathy Linton?
Why does Isabella Linton leave Heathcliff? How do Cathy and Linton get to know each other?
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