Wuthering Heights
Throughout the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontė effectively utilizes weather and setting as methods of conveying insight to the reader of the personal feeling of the characters. While staying at Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood made a visit to meet Mr. Heathcliff for a second time, and the horrible snow storm that he encounters is the first piece of evidence that he should have perceived about Heathcliff's personality. The setting of the moors is one that makes them a very special place for Catherine and Heathcliff, and they are thus very symbolic of their friendship and spirts. The weather and setting are very effective tools used throughout the end of the novel as well, for when the weather becomes nice it is not only symbolic of the changing times, and the changing people, but also a new beginning. During his stay at Thrushcross Grange Mr. Lockwood made the perilous journey to Wuthering Heights only a few times. On the occasion of his second visit, "the snow began to drive thickly"(7) during his walk, and this horrible weather should have been foreshadowing to Lockwood about Heathcliff's, and the other member's of the household's true personalities. Upon arriving he was forced to bang continually upon the door b
Brontė very effectively uses the weather and the setting within Wuthering Heights to always allow the reader a little more insight into the minds of the characters. The setting and weather seem to mimic the feeling of the individuals that are within the novel. Brontė's use of this as a literary tool is very intriguing, and very helpful in aiding the reader in their grasping the complexity of the characters within the novel. "Catherine would not be persuaded into tranquility. She kept wandering to and fro, from the gate to the door . . . and at length took up a permanent situation on one side of the wall, near the road, where, . . . great drops [of rain] began to plash around her(78). Toward the end of the novel, around the time of Lockwood's return to visit Wuthering Heights, the weather suddenly becomes kinder and the setting more amiable. Upon walking up to the door of the Heights "all that remained of day was a beamless, amber light along the west' but [he] could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass by that splendid moon"(286). This feeling that the reader acquires from the description of the weather is a much more placid one than used before within the novel. Lockwood was able to enter freely into the yard of Heights, and there was "a fragrance of stocks and wall flowers, [that] wafted on the air, from amongst them homely fruit trees"(286). Never before was the Heights described as a tranquil place, and yet it is here. The garden that Cathy planted is outside of the doors and is filled with twisted fir trees, and domestic plant. These two kinds of plants mingling together represent
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Approximate Word count = 1271
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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