“Whatever Our Souls Are Made Of, His And Mine Are the Same.”: Emily Brontë”
About the Author
Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë was born on July 30, 1818, England and died on December 19, 1848. She was an English novelist and poet who produced one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847). Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell.
About the Novel
The novel is based on Heathcliff’s revenge among those who ill-treated him. The story is told by the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to the tenant, Lockwood. The story has both past and present story of Heathcliff. The housekeeper told Lockwood about the whole story of Heathcliff. At the end of the story, Heathcliff becomes mentally ill and imagining Catherine, his dead lover, everywhere and started talking to her ghost.
Year of Publication: 1847
Genre: Gothic novel
Protagonists: Heathcliff, Catherine
Themes
- Destructive Love and its inevitable consequences
- Social class and structure
- Revenge
- Forgiveness
- Betrayal
- Suffering
Motifs: Obsession, Revenge, Rebellion
Symbols
The moors, Ghosts
- The self-destructive journey of Heathcliff as he attempts revenge for losing his soul mate, Catherine, to Edgar Linton.
- The farmhouse Wuthering Heights was based on a real place named Top Withens.
- Twelve characters have died in the novel.
- Realism and gothic symbolism fuse to form a romance novel that’s full of incidences about social relevance.
