The First Person Narrative Wuthering Heights

The First Person Narrative Wuthering Heights

In Emily Bronte's text Whuthering Heights there are various characters that exercise some form of narrative function and their roles interrelate with their versions of what happens. The novel in presented in the first person narrative throughout, with the bulk of the story being presented via three main characters; Lookwood, Nelly Dean and Isabella with other characters at time presenting there own small insights.

The first-degree narrator in Emily Bronte's text Whuthering Heights is

Lookwood. His voice is the first we hear from the outset of the novel and essentially the entire story consists of the contents of Lookwood's diary which e has compiled from various sources, including diary entries, the back of books, stories that Nelly Dean tells him and his own first hand experiences. Lockwood is described by Dr. Tony Miller in his tutorial on Whuthering

Heights as "A complete outsider...The London man, vein, convinced of his own attractiveness, partronising to Nelly, he says 'Goodness, you are very clever for a servant!'" is essence Lookwood is portrayed as a fool and he has a very specific role to play in the text. Lookwood's primary function is to demonstrate how not to understand the extraordinary people and events in

Whuthering Heights through bringing in his own assumptions about the inhabitants of Thrush Cross Grange and Whuthering Heights Lookwood fails to full understand these extremely complex characters. Look wood acts as a reminder of the specialness of the people that we meet throughout the progression of the story.

Nelly Dean is the person through whom we hear the bulk of the story, she is telling Lockwood of her own experiences and the experiences of others, which