Friday, February 15, 2019
Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights Essay -- Emily Bronte Wuthering Heigh
Emily Brontes Wuthering highschool1)The story takes place in the early XIXth century. There are devil faces in this extract Mr Lockwood and Catherine Linton. MrLockwood is the first narrator of this novel, he was one of MrHeathcliffs tenants. At the beginning of the story , there were threecharacters Heathcliff, a groundling, his sister Catherine and his brother Hindley. Catherine fell in love with Heathcliff, but wasmarried with Edgar Linton. So, the second character we meet here isCatherine Linton, Edgar Lintons daughter. This extract belongs to theend of the novel. Catherine comes back to the farm Wuthering Heights,she tries to maintain in the house trough the window. Mr Lockwood, whichhad read Catherines diary, does not recognize her.2)In this text, Mr Lockwood is in his bed room at Wuthering Heights, heis simply and he had to stay in the farm because of the snow. He isdisturbed by the puffy wind and the incessant move of the fir-bough.So he tries to stop this testy nois e, opening the window and seizingthe branch. When his fingers grabbed the branch, another cold handcaught his. indeed the context makes the text become an ambiguousexperience and we can ordinate that this extract is set between sanity andmadness to some extents. starting time of all, we will see that this text relates an ambiguousexperience. The atmosphere is gloomy Mr Lockwood is alone in anisolated farm, everithing is dark around him and there are legion(predicate)teasing noises. So we can say that the atmosphere is quitenightmarish. Mr Lockwood had found Catherine Lintons diary, and hehad read it. So he knows the passion between Catherine Linton and MrHeathcliff, the proprietor of Wuthering Heights. The first contact between... ...ieve that what he is living is a hallucination, a merchandise of his vagary because nothing seems to be real. Maybethat the excessive feelings mentionned are caused by Mr Lockwoodsimagination for the reader, the atmosphere is not very threatening .As in numerous pre-Romantic novel, the nightmarish atmosphere, symbolisedby the darkness, the moor, the winter, is the source of imaginationand also of fear imagination and extreme feelings like fear arelinked together.We could make a link between this novel from Emily Bront and theshort stories by Edgar Allan Poe, like in The Raven for example.Indeed, Poe wrote his short stories in the same period as EmilyBront. In The Raven, the power of imagination, the supranatural andthe unreal have also a great place, and we could note, as in WutheringHeights, that the feelings expressed are often excessive.
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