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International Refereed Scientific Journal Vision, Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2016
THE LIFE OF EMILY BRONTË AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS
OF HER MASTERPIECE “WUTHERING HEIGHTS”
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Arafat USEIN, page 116-124
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Mr.sci. Arafat USEIN
International Vision University,
Faculty of Social Sciences,
Gostivar,
Republic of
Macedonia,
e-mail:
arafathusein@vizyon.edu.mk
Article type:
1.02 General scientific articles
UDK: 929Bronte, E.
Date of received:
|April 22, 2016
Date of acceptance:
June 27, 2016
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Declaration of interest:
The author reported no conflict
of interest related to this article.
September, 2016; 1 (1)
ABSTRACT
Emily Brontë is best known as for authoring the “Wuthering
Heights”. She was the sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë,
also famous authors. She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire,
England, on July 30, 1818, lived a
quiet life in Yorkshire
with her clergyman father; brother, BranwellBrontë; and two
sisters, Charlotte and Anne. The sisters enjoyed writing poetry
and novels, publishing under pseudonyms. As “Ellis Bell,”
Emily wrote
Wuthering Heights
(1847)her only published
novel - garnered wide critical acclaim. Emily Brontë died in
Haworth, Yorkshire, England, on December 19, 1848 in the
same
year her brother, Branwell, passed away.The main theme
in
Wuthering Heights
, the nature of love, both romantic and
brotherly but,
oddly enough, applies to the principal characters
as well as the minor ones. The most important relationship in
the novel is the one between Heathcliff and Catherine. The
nature of their love seems to go beyond the kind of love
most people know. In fact, it is as if
their love is beyond this
world, belonging on a spiritual plane that takes place anything
available to everyone else on Earth. They both, however, do
not fully understand the nature of their love, for they betray
one another: Each of them marry a person whom they know
they do not love as much as they love each other. Instead of
symbolizing
a particular emotion, characters symbolize real
people with real, oftentimes not nice emotions. Every character
has at least one redeeming trait or action with which the
reader can empathize. This empathy is a result of the complex
nature of the characters and results in
a depiction of life in the
Victorian Era,a time when people behaved very similarly to
the way they do today.
Kewords:
Wuthering Heights, Heatchlif, Cahterine, love,
hatred, revenge
