Heathcliff and Cathy of Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff and Cathy of Wuthering Heights The setting and descriptions of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange that Emily Brontė uses throughout her novel, Wuthering Heights, helps to set the mood for describing Heathcliff and Cathy. The cold, muddy, and barren moors separate the two households. Each house stands alone, in the midst of the dreary land, but the atmospheres of the two estates are quite different. This difference helps explain the personalities and bond of Cathy and Heathcliff. Wuthering Heights, which represents Hell, is always in a state of storminess. The Heights and its surroundings depict the coldness, darkness, and evil associated with Hell. This parallels Heathcliff. He symbolizes the cold, dark, and dismal house. The author uses parallel personifications to depict specific parts of the house as analogues to Heathcliff’s face. Brontė describes the windows of the Heights as deeply set in the wall. Similarly, Heathcliff has deep-set dark eyes. Alongside with this association, Brontė’s title of her book holds definite meaning. The very definition of “wuthering” is “to dry up, shrivel, or wilt as from decay” (“Wuthering,” WordSmyth Collaboratio
1999. 21 March 2000. *http://wordsymth.net Brontė, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Ed. Linda H. Peterson. Boston: Bedford Books, 1992.
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Approximate Word count = 879
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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