Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë BRONTË USES IMAGERY EFFECTIVELY TO EMPHASISE THE CHARACTERS OF

HEATHCLIFF, CATHERINE AND LINTON AND THEIR COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS IN

THE NOVEL.

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In the novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, symbolism is used

continuously throughout, making it a brilliant, gripping story. In

this essay I will be explaining how Brontë uses it, like using

physical appearances of each person to emphasise their character. I

will also be writing about the way she describes the settings and how

they are built or decorated to again enhance or create analogies of

each character. Brontë not only uses these but also by cleverly

making what each person says and how they say it, makes it be symbolic

of what they are like. The weather and the atmosphere that they live

in creates a picture of what is going on at certain points in the

novel, like if characters are in an argumentative mood the weather

will be dark which symbolises that state of mind. At the more

poignant points in the text Brontë even refers to the supernatural or

to natural phenomena to emphasise or illustrate the deep emotions of

that person. Many metaphors and similes are used and also heaven and

hell to symbolise the extreme parts of the story. All these brilliant

techniques and devices create...

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... situations like the characters have been in.

The most effective part of the story for me was the speech between

Nelly and Cathy, where Heathcliff hears Cathy say that it would

degrade her to marry him. This part appealed to me because it made me

think about what could have happened if he had heard the rest of the

conversation and if it would have been a good novel. I thought that

it would most probably not have been very gripping or even that good

if it were to have happened. Although it didn’t happen it still could

keep the story as being powerful and evocative.

I think that Wuthering Heights is about love but there are many other

genres’ that it could be, Revenge Spiritual or even a book about the

Supernatural. Whatever the type if the storyline remained it would

again still be an intensive, emotive novel.