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Wuthering Heights Summary

First published m 1847, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ranks high on the list of major works of English literature A brooding tale of passion and revenge set in the Yorkshire moors, the novel has inspired no fewer than four film versions in modern times. Early critics did not like the work, citing its excess of passion and its coarseness. A second edition was published in 1850, two years after the author's death. Sympathetically...

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Encyclopedia Articles (3)

Wuthering Heights

177 words, approx. 1 pages

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë's 1847 Gothic novel about the brooding Heathcliff's passion for Cathy has become one of cinema's most enduring love stories. Director A. V. Bra... Read more

Wuthering Heights

5,273 words, approx. 18 pages

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights is the only novel by Emily Bronte (1818-48), one of three sisters whose literary productions caused a minor sensation when they began appearing i... Read more

Wuthering Heights

3,533 words, approx. 12 pages

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Growing up in the isolated moors of northern England, young Emily Bronte and her siblings relied on their environment for entertainment and exploration. They also ... Read more

Emily Bront Biographies (5)

Emily Brontë

487 words, approx. 2 pages

The English novelist Emily Brontë (1818-1848) wrote only one novel, "Wuthering Heights." A unique achievement in its time, this work dramatizes a vision of life controlled by elemental forces whi... Read more

Emily Brontë

7,752 words, approx. 26 pages

Biography EssayThe biographer of Emily Bronte faces considerable problems. Her slender output of one great novel and some impressive but baffling poems does not give one a great deal upon which to bui... Read more

Emily (Jane) Bronte

7,515 words, approx. 26 pages

The biographer of Emily Brontë faces considerable problems. Her slender output of one great novel and some impressive but baffling poems does not give one a great deal upon which to build. Unlike... Read more

Emily (Jane) Bronte

2,928 words, approx. 10 pages

An aura of mystery has surrounded all the Brontë sisters ever since "Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily), and Acton (Anne) Bell" had a volume of poetry published in 1846, followed the next year by ... Read more

Emily (Jane) Bronte

5,300 words, approx. 18 pages

The only poems by Emily Brontë that were published in her lifetime were included in a slim volume by Brontë and her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (... Read more

Essays & Analysis (47)

Elisabeth Bronfen

13,583 words, approx. 46 pages

1,328 words, approx. 5 pages

The love that Heathcliff and Catherine share for each other is wild and passionate, and is a major theme in the novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. Both Heathcliff and Catherine are monomaniacs... Read more

Repression in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

532 words, approx. 2 pages

In Emily Brönte's Wuthering Heights, it is evident that nature plays a main role in describing figurative language within the novel. However, nature itself is not mentioned extensively withi... Read more

Heathcliff and Catherine Character Comparison

1,413 words, approx. 5 pages

The first half of Wuthering Heights revolves around the drama filled relationship of Heathcliff and Catherine. Throughout myriad events that occur in the novel, many characteristics of the two charac... Read more

Review of "Wuthering Heights"

906 words, approx. 4 pages

In the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte presents the relationship of good and evil in characters. In the book many characters expose both qualities. The characters at some points will exhibit all... Read more

A Comparison of Mr. Rochester and Heathcliff

1,854 words, approx. 7 pages

The novels 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë both have similar running themes throughout the story; in particular the use of an `anti-hero' as the male ... Read more

Wuthering Heights Response

418 words, approx. 2 pages

Wuthering Heights Response The novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte leads the reader to ruminate to a deeper level than most books. If it were to be described as a painting; it would be a bold, c... Read more

Vengeance in Wuthering Heights

527 words, approx. 2 pages

There are many different techniques authors use in their writing, such as foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, repetition, and reoccurring theme. Prompted by selfishness, revenge plays an important role... Read more

Two Hearts at War with Each Other

652 words, approx. 3 pages

In Emily Bronte's novel, Wuthering Heights, we meet two families, the Lintons and the Earnshaws, similar in structure, but flawlessly different in personalities and actions. The locale of the book is ... Read more

The Inner Self in the Outside World

1,852 words, approx. 7 pages

The Inner Self in the Outside World Does turmoil in people promote chaos in the world, or does chaos in the world create turmoil in people? To uncover a single answer to such a question is impossib... Read more

Reality as a Basis for Fiction

964 words, approx. 4 pages

The following story is fiction. Any resemblance to real persons, places, or events is purely coincidental. Or is it? Emily Brontë uses the characters and the setting of Wuthering Heights to i... Read more

Wuthering Heights

215 words, approx. 1 pages

In the book Wuthering Heights, Catherine Earnshaw's love is selfish and only concerned with her own feelings. If Catherine's love was unselfish, she would have wanted to marry for love alone. Yet as... Read more

Wuthering Heights

621 words, approx. 3 pages

There are many questions raised while reading Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Bronte. The progressive behavior of each character leads one to question the realism of these characters. Mr. Heathcli... Read more

Wuthering Heights: Catherine

604 words, approx. 3 pages

Devotion is a primary theme in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Catherine Earnshaw shows the most devotion in this novel. She befriends Heathcliff when he joins the Earnshaw family, even though at f... Read more

Revenge and Manipulation

1,028 words, approx. 4 pages

The novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte is a classic love stricken story dated in the 1770's. It's a complicated story of the lives of Heathcliff and Catherine. There are many themes that ma... Read more

Comparison of Heroines in Wuthering Hieghts and the Great Gatsby

4,340 words, approx. 15 pages

Comparison of the presentation of the heroines in F. Scott Fitzgerald's `TheGreat Gatsby' and Emily Bronte's `Wuthering Heights' Introduction to `The Great Gatsby' F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote `The Great... Read more

Overview of Wuthering Heights

2,020 words, approx. 7 pages

Once you read an impressive story, what do you feel? Excitement? Disappointment? Passion? Miracle? Wuthering Heights could give you these emotions. It was a classic novel, which was published in 1847,... Read more

Review of Wuthering Heights

2,027 words, approx. 7 pages

Wuthering Heights and Repetition

338 words, approx. 2 pages

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë's, the author uses repetition as a device to give us the full understanding of the characters and how they develop and repeat the past unknowingly. This is sh... Read more

Love and Revenge in "Wuthering Heights"

809 words, approx. 3 pages

Heathcliff is a gipsy waif. He is picked up by Mr.Earnshow and treated well by him. When the old man dies, the young master Hindley drives him from their company to the servants and makes him work har... Read more

Wuthering Heights: Character Analysis of Heathcliffe

959 words, approx. 4 pages

Through out literature, the villain has played a vital role in stories. The villain is the adversary of the hero. As a result, the reader feels a strong dislike for the villain, which is the case for ... Read more

Wuthering Heights Vs Thrushcross Grange

759 words, approx. 3 pages

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is a gripping tale of a love that extends beyond the grave and revenge that consumes a lifetime. Catherine says, ."..he's more myself than I am. Whatever our soul... Read more

Opposing Worlds, Opposing Characters, in Wuthering Heights

891 words, approx. 3 pages

Emily Bronte's masterful tale of love, passion, jealousy, and treachery clearly represents the opposing worlds and characters in created in Wuthering Heights. The settings of the story, Wuthering H... Read more

An Examination of Gothic Imagery in Wuthering Heights

437 words, approx. 2 pages

Gothic Imagery in Wuthering Heights Gothic began in the mid eighteenth century and lasted until the mid nineteenth century. It is generally characterized by terror, mystery, the supernatural, deca... Read more

Wuthering Heights: A Character Analysis of Catherine Linton

430 words, approx. 2 pages

Mrs. Catherine Linton "Nelly, I see now you think me a selfish wretch; but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggars? whereas, if I marry Linton I can aid Heath... Read more

Wuthering Heights: The Relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine

408 words, approx. 2 pages

Most novels are written as love stories, adventure, or tragedy. However, Wuthering Heights is a combination of all. This book relates to humans problem such as love and hate, revenge and jealousy this... Read more

Analysis of Wuthering Heights, Chapter One

1,140 words, approx. 4 pages

Emily Bronte was born in 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire. Her father, the Reverend Patrick Bronte had married Maria Branwell in 1812 and had already published a number of books himself. In 1820 he moved t... Read more

Class and Gender in Wuthering Heights

916 words, approx. 4 pages

Conflict as a result of class and gender division is a common theme seen throughout Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights. Social contrasts and gender boundaries create oppression and tension am... Read more

Characterization in Wuthering Heights

1,757 words, approx. 6 pages

Wuthering Heights deals with the very nature of controversy and paradox. The novel expresses deep criticisms of social conventions, and Brontë uses her characters in their incongruous surrounding... Read more

The Cultivated and the Wild in Wuthering Heights

1,817 words, approx. 7 pages

Two locales exist within Emily Bronte's masterpiece Wuthering Heights: the civilized Thrushcross Grange and the rough Wuthering Heights. Thrushcross Grange is "a splendid place carpeted in crimson" (B... Read more

Wuthering Heights

1,329 words, approx. 5 pages

Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontë was first published in 1847. Emily Brontë, sister of famous writers, Charlotte, Anne, and Branwell Brontë, was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, on... Read more

Social Hierarchy: a Destructive, Manipulative Device

1,129 words, approx. 4 pages

Emily Bronte's erudite novel, Wuthering Heights, is set between the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century. This era was a time where the British bureaucracy had been a clean-cut, u... Read more

Analysis of a Key Passage to Wuthering Heights

826 words, approx. 3 pages

"Wuthering Heights", written by Emily Bronte, is full of vivid descriptions and melancholy characters. The story about a mysterious orphan boy named Heathcliff who he falls passionately in love with C... Read more

Wuthering Heights: a Psychological Analysis

1,583 words, approx. 6 pages

Wuthering Heights is a classic piece of British literature that was written by Emily Bronte in the year of 1846. The novel begins as a man by the name of Lockwood moves to an area called the grange.... Read more

Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

609 words, approx. 3 pages

Catherine and Heathcliff's relationship is a very unique one because its many natures often change and are not the same normal emotions in relationships. Their wild, high-spirited personalities make t... Read more

Critical Analyasis of 'Wuthering Heights.'

1,330 words, approx. 5 pages

`Gothic Fictions present different, more exciting worlds . . . The artificiality of narratives imagined other worlds and also challenged the forms of nature and reality advocated by 18th century domes... Read more

Nelly and Wuthering Heights

577 words, approx. 2 pages

The novel Wuthering Heights presents an array of characters that support the main characters of Catherine and Heathcliff, who provide many layers of complications to the themes of love and revenge. N... Read more

Wuthering Heights

1,001 words, approx. 4 pages

Emily Bronte, the author of Wuthering Heights wrote this book setting the scene in 1801 on a cold winter evening. It's written in present tense and is narrated by the main characters; Mr Lockwood a te... Read more

Heathcliff's Fate in "Wuthering Heights"

1,321 words, approx. 5 pages

In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff enters Wuthering Heights without the possibility of a fulfilling existence. The discrepancy between the rich and the poor negatively colors Hindley... Read more

Structure and Narrative Technique in "Wurthering Heights" and "Return of the Native"

1,516 words, approx. 6 pages

Thomas Hardy employs an `omniscient' narrator in his rural novel `Return of the Native', as he attempts to mimic classical tragedy by uniting the essential elements of time, place and ac... Read more

The Thrill of Terror in Wuthering Heights

729 words, approx. 3 pages

A horrific, unsettling, mysterious and perversely thrilling image haunts any thoughts I currently have of Wuthering Heights. A ghastly image of a gentleman, moved by terror to cruelty, bloodstained be... Read more

Storm Versus Calm: A Comparison of Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights

693 words, approx. 3 pages

In Emily Brontё's novel Wuthering Heights, the two houses, Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights, are set in England. Each house is almost the exact opposite of the other. In Wuthering Height... Read more

The Use of Atmospheric Conditions in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

883 words, approx. 3 pages

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights How Emily Bronte makes use of atmospheric conditions to emphasise events and highlight the mood of the characters in the story. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte mak... Read more

Imagery and Symbolism in Wuthering Heights

926 words, approx. 4 pages

A big contrast between the Lintons and the Earnshaws are the houses Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights seems like an `evil' and `wicked' place when described in the boo... Read more

The Importance of Setting in Wuthering Heights

1,263 words, approx. 5 pages

The setting in a Gothic novel is greatly influential on the entire story. In Gothic novels the setting not only shows the dread and horror but also depicts the deterioration of the world. The set... Read more

Babyish Love-----Isabella Towards Heathcliff

567 words, approx. 2 pages

There is no doubt that Isabella's affection towards Heathclff is a sort of infatuation, which can be named by a babyish love but attached with its own obsession. Her sentiments is absolutely blind and... Read more

Comparing Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1,301 words, approx. 5 pages

The gothic genre created both a lot of films and novels, some of which are debatable as to if they were categorized properly. The Films Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights directed by Peter Kosminsk... Read more

Free Book Notes (1)

Wuthering Heights

23,293 words, approx. 78 pages

Wuthering Heights Book Notes is a free study guide on Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Browse the summary below:   Author Biography / Context of the Work   One-Page Plot Summary &nbs... Read more

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