Wuthering Heights
(Emily Bronte)
Write your abstract here. Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 by Emily Bronte, under the male pseudonym of Ellis Bell. Reactions from contemporary reviewers varied from amazement at the novel's emotional reach to condemnation for its challenge to Victorian values. The novel exercises elements of Victorian romance, saga, social commentary and gothic drama through the perspectives of several narrators. Set in Yorkshire's harsh landscape,the novel spans three generations. It is the house maid Nellie Dean who bears witness to the impact of the outsider (Heathcliff) on the Ernshaw and Linton families. Heathcliff as outsider, picked up in the street by kindly Mr Ernshaw is the catalyst who challenges traditional Victorian values and social proprieties. His love for young Catherine Ernshaw survives rejection, betrayal, two hollow marriages and even death. It is not until the third generation that the two families are reconciled as social prejudice finally diminishes. Such is the power of Wuthering Heights that postmodernists are able to view it through the lenses of psychoanalysis,feminism and Marxism. Beyond any such readings,it is the spirit of haunting love and tragic acquiescence to societal values that resonate with generations of readers. The power of the forces at work in Wuthering Heights is represented with poetic skill in a vast landscape where ghosts and fragile spirits seek to be heard.
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