Wuthering heights

Mr. Lockwood.
He was a real gentleman and good hearted man. He 
was a tenant in Thrushcross Grange.
Themes 
Love:
Love takes the main part in personal interaction in the story.
Sometimes love puts any of lovers in dilemmas like Catherine, Edgar and 
Heathcliff. But sometimes love praises the couples, as Hareton and Cath
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erine Junior. Isabella is the one who was even despised because of her love 
to her first sweetheart and also her husband.
Hatred:
It is quite obvious that the two major themes in social af-
fairs are love and hate. Hate will be the reason for death or even being 
murdered.Also the illnesses which may change their way of life.Hatred is 
sometimes known as the mother of all wreckage.
Revenge:
Heathcliff’s life was set up on revenge. In his childhood he 

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hardly lived well days. He lived under bad circumstances and had been 
treated badly. This has made him revengeful. After many tricks he took 
his revenge from all “Linton”s and “Earnshaw”s. He destroyed each mem-
ber’s life in thefamily and obtained their houses and all their wealth. 
5. CONCLUSION
Wuthering Heights is risen upon not only the accumulated tensions and 
part-formed characters of adolescent fantasy (adumbrated in the Gondal 
sagas) but upon the very theme of adolescent, or even childish, or infantile, 
fantasy. In the famous and unfailingly moving early scene in which Cath-
erine Earnshaw tries to get into Lockwood’s chamber (more specifically 
her old oak-paneled bed, in which, nearly aquarter of a century earlier, she 
and the child Heathcliff customarily slept together), it is significant that she 
identifies herself as Catherine Linton though she is in fact a child; and that 
she informs Lockwood that she had lost her way on the moor, for twenty 
years. As Catherine Linton, married, and evenpregnant, she has never been 
anything other than a child: this is the pathos of her situation, and not the 
fact that she wrongly, or even rightly, chose to marry Edgar Linton over 
Heathcliff. Brontë’s emotions are clearly caught up with these child’s pre
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dilections, as the evidence of her poetry reveals, an imaginative elasticity, 
that challenges the very premises of the Romantic exaltation of the child 
and childhood’s innocence.
Wuthering Heights was Emily Brontë›s only novel, and it is considered 
the fullest expression of her highly individual poetic vision. It contains 
many Romantic influences: Heathcliff
is a very Byronic character, though 
he lacks the self pity that mars many Byronic characters, and he is deeply 
attached to the natural world. When the novel was written, the peak of 
the Romantic age had passed: Emily Brontë lived a very isolated life, 
and was in some sense behind the times. 
Wuthering Heights
expresses 
criticisms of social conventions,particularly those surrounding issues of 
gender: notice that the author distributes “feminine” and “masculine” 
characteristics without regard to sex. Brontë had difficulties living in 
society while remaining true to the things she considered important: the 
ideal of women as delicate beings who avoid physical or mental activity 
and pursue fashions and flirtations was repugnant to her. Class issues are 
also important: we are bound to respect Ellen, who is educated but of low 
class, more than Lockwood.
Any reader of 
Wuthering Heights
should recognize immediately that it is 
not the sort of novel that a gently-bred Victorian lady would be expected to 

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write. Emily Brontë sent it to publishers under the masculine name of Ellis 
Bell, but even so it took many tries and many months before it was finally 
accepted. Its reviews were almost entirely negative: reviewers implied that 
the author of such a novel must be insane, obsessed with cruelty, barbaric. 
Emily’s sister Charlotte’s novel 
Jane Eyre
was much more successful. 
Emily was always eager to maintain the secrecy under which the novel 
was published, understandably. She died soon after the publication, and 
Charlotte felt obliged - now that secrecy was no longer necessary - to 
write a preface for the novel defending her sister’s character. The preface 
also made it clear that Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell were, in fact, different 
people: some readers had speculated that Wuthering Heights was an early 
work by the author of 
Jane Eyre
. It appears that Charlotte herself was 
uncomfortable with the more disturbingaspects of her sister’s masterpiece. 
She said that if Emily had lived, “her mind would of itself have grown 
like a strong tree; loftier, straighter, wider-spreading, and its matured fruits 
would have attained a mellower ripeness and sunnier bloom.” Her apology 
for Emily’s work should be read with therealization that Charlotte’s 
character was quite different from Emily’s: herinterpretation of 
Wuthering 
Heights
should not necessarily be taken at face value.
Wuthering Heights
does not belong to any obvious prose genre, nor did 
it begin an important literary lineage. None of itsimitations can approach 
its sincerity and poetic power. However, it has still been an important 
influence on English literature. With the passing of time, an immense 
amount of interest has grown up about the Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, 
and Anne, and they have achieved the status of the centers of a literary 
epoch.

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