How Does Bronte Create Tension In Wuthering Heights

Although Wuthering Heights was written in 1907, it still relates to the lives of people today. Wuthering Heights was written by English author, Emily Bronte. Bronte covered many themes such as, manipulation, rivalry, love and hate, suffering, and abuse. Although the most prevalent themes are passion, seclusion through classes, and the supernatural.

In Wuthering Heights, Bronte used the theme of passion, not in a helpful way but in a destruction all way. This novel included Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. These two had grown up beside one another. Catherine was introduced to Edgar Linton after learning how to be proper from the guidance of Mr and Mrs Linton. After marrying Edgar, Catherine found that Heathcliff had been in love with her

and she fell ill. She stayed ill for many weeks following that. Then relatively close to her death, Heathcliff had such passion to have Catherine to himself that he tried guilting her into loving him. By guilting her, Heathcliff in turn was slowly killing Catherine. Mrs. Dean, was the nurse of Wuthering Heights. She wanted to make life perfect for everyone so badly that she only saw what she wanted to and nothing else. In every situation she wedged herself into, she messed up everything else that had been going well. Across the world there are people that are so passionate about what they want, they do not see other people’s views. A recent topic that is happenning is homesexual marriage. There are people on either side killing one another, because they will not see the other person’s point of view.
Emily Bronte also used the relevant theme of seclusion within classes. In the novel, the higher class were always trying to help out the lower class, The first time this was shown, was in the beginning when Mr Earnshaw had taken Heathcliff in. Earnshaw was of a higher class than Heathcliff was in; as a result of bringing Heathcliff in, Earnshaw created many of the later problems in the novel. Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine had grown up and played happily with Heathcliff. After the Lintons took Catherine away and taught her how to be proper, the two of them were no longer to enjoy time together. In life, people of high class usually think they are do good when helping someone out, but in reality they are not.
The supernatural was a recurring theme throughout Wuthering Heights.

The first occurrence was shown in chapter 3, while Mr. Lockwood was having his mysterious dreams. Later in the book, it is shown that the people from his dreams are past members of the family. In chapter 26, Heathcliff prays that after Catherine had died, her ghost would be with him. This foreshadows some of the next occurrences of the supernatural. In chapter 29 Heathcliff says that Catherine had tortured him for the past eighteen years. Although after he decided to open Catherine’s coffin in the grave, he felt less tortured than he did in the past eighteen years. In the last few chapters of the book, Emily shows that Heathcliff has been seeing the spirit of Catherine and talking to her. Finally at the very end of the book, a little boy tells Mrs. Dean that he had seen two people walking happily through the moors together. There have been many supernatural occurrences relatively recently. There have been multiple people that have died and went to either Heaven or Hell, but then end up coming back to life within an hour. There have also been individuals who they they have seen and heard their late spouses towards the end of their lives. There are still many supernatural occurrences that happen

today.
Throughout Wuthering Heights, there were three rather prevalent themes. The first was having passion for one thing so much, you are ruining something else. The second theme was separation within the classes; the separation between classes usually happens between the higher and lower class. The third and final theme, was the use of the supernatural. Although this novel is placed in the early 1800s, it still relates to the people of the 21st century.