Wuthering Heights Parallelism

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Opposing forces have always been a part of life since the earliest of humans. Yin and Yang is illustrated very frequently in everything: sun and moon, light and dark, heaven and hell. The yin-yang philosophy explains how the two forces are connected and how they exist within each other and can not exist without each other. This idea can also be applied to the two houses that make up the setting of Wuthering Heights, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Wuthering Heights tends to be more negative, having more of the action and irrational characters, whereas Thrushcross Grange tends to be much more positive with its aesthetic appearance and civil characters. Opposing parallelism is exhibited throughout Brontë’s Wuthering Heights by the decisions made by the characters in each house and the two houses themselves, however, they don’t act as opposites in every situation. …show more content…

In the first chapter, Lockwood describes the house as having an unkempt lawn, damage to the house due to its high elevation and exposure to wind, and furniture he would expect from a farmer, which he attributes to lack of servants, being that there is only one (Bronte 5). The first impression the house gives him supports the rundown condition of the house. Later in the novel, Nelly tells Lockwood the story of his tyrannical landlord and the actions Heathcliff has committed throughout his life, such as how he threatened to kill Linton if he didn’t marry Cathy, and how he locked Nelly and Cathy in the house until Cathy married Linton (Bronte 258). These actions support the idea of Wuthering Heights being very unlike Thrushcross Grange and eventually cause Lockwood to leave for London. Wuthering Heights repetitively proves to be much less domestic than Thrushcross

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