What conclusions do you draw about Bronts
Brontė's novel seems to contain all the typical,traditional Victorian social values and divisions such as the master of the house with servants below him and so on. Social distinctions were very much more marked and rigidly respected. We first glimpse what Brontė might think of social stereotypes and divisions, right at the start of the book through Lockwood, and later through other narrators such as Nelly Dean. Lockwood is seen as the epitome of Victorian social values and ideals, he is a normal Victorian gentleman an agreeable but shallow character. He is perhaps a sketchy attempt to portray a sophisticated townie. He is a well meaning but rather confused and superficial person, who is naive but also shows signs of maturity and intelligence inspite of moments of conceit. Lockwood is an honest narrator with no hidden agenda, his ordinariness, like Nelly contributes to the credibility of the events he is caught up in and hears of. Lockwood is used by Brontė to show what Victorians would think of what they saw or heard, using their social values. Right from the beginning of the book Lockwood tries to place Wuthering Heights into his own conceptions of what society should be, he tries to put
as Brontė saying that you cannot socially stereotype "children of the storm" whereas the Lintons are the perhaps the abuse of physical and social power. This stereotypes that he has are turned on their head. Lintons are portrayed as very wealthy, respectable and Heathcliff there is almost a Satanic hero, an idea inferior to her, something beneath her social status. It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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