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Emily Brontë was
born in Thornton,
Yorkshire, in the
north of England.
She was, perhaps,
the greatest writer
of the three Brontë
sisters – Charlotte,
Emily and Anne.
She believed in the presence of supernatural powers
(such as ghosts or spirits) and began to express her
feelings in poems such as "To Imagination," "The
Prisoner," "The Visionary," "The Old Stoic," and "No
Coward Soul."
Her first (and only) novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a
story-within-a-story, did not gain immediate success,
but it has acclaimed later fame as one of the most
intense novels written in the English language.
Genre · Gothic novel (designed to both horrify and
fascinate readers with scenes of passion and cruelty;
supernatural elements; and a dark, foreboding
atmosphere)
Date of first publication · the nineteenth century
(1847)
Setting (place) · All the action of Wuthering Heights
takes place in England, around two neighboring houses
on the Yorkshire moors—Wuthering Heights and
Thrushcross Grange.
Mr. Earnshaw - Catherine and Hindley’s father. Mr. Earnshaw adopts
Heathcliff and brings him to live at Wuthering Heights.
Hindley Earnshaw - Catherine’s brother, and Mr. Earnshaw’s son.
Hindley resents it when Heathcliff is brought to live at Wuthering
Heights.
Catherine Earnshaw - the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw and his wife,
Catherine falls powerfully in love with Heathcliff but marries Linton
Heathcliff - an orphan brought to live at Wuthering Heights by Mr.
Earnshaw, Heathcliff falls into an intense, unbreakable love with
Catherine
Edgar Linton – the man to which Catherine marries
Isabella Linton - Edgar Linton’s sister, who falls in love with Heathcliff
and marries him
Nelly Dean - the chief narrator of Wuthering Heights.
Lockwood- he serves as an intermediary between Nelly and the
reader.
Young Catherine – Catherine and Linton’s daughter
Linton Heathcliff – Isabella and Heathcliff’s son
• Mr. Earnshaw goes to Liverpool and returns home with an
orphan boy, Heathcliff, whom he will raise with his own children.
• Heathcliff and Catherine soon grow inseparable, spending their
days playing on the moors.
• After the death of Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliff finds himself treated
as a common laborer, forced to work in the fields.
• Catherine’s desire for social advancement prompts her to
become engaged to Edgar Linton, despite her overpowering love
for Heathcliff.
• When Heathcliff returns, after an absence of 3 years, wealthy,
he immediately sets about seeking revenge on all who have
wronged him.
• In order to inherit Thrushcross Grange, he marries Isabella
Linton.
• Catherine becomes ill, gives birth to a daughter, and dies.
• Isabella flees to London and gives birth to Heathcliff’s son,
named Linton, after her family. She keeps the boy with her there.
• After 13 years, Isabella dies and Linton comes to live with
Heathcliff.
• Young Catherine and Linton begin a secret romance conducted
entirely through letters.
• Heathcliff hopes that if Catherine marries Linton, his legal claim
upon Thrushcross Grange will be complete.
• After marrying young Catherine, Linton dies.
• Catherine grows to love Hareton, her cousin, Hindley’s son, as
they live together at Wuthering Heights.
• Heathcliff dies. Hareton and young Catherine inherit Wuthering
Heights and Thrushcross Grange.
The Moors
Ghosts
Windows and doors
Dogs
The Destructiveness of a Love That Never
Changes. Catherine and Heathcliff’s passion for one
another seems to be the center of Wuthering Heights, given
that it is stronger and more lasting than any other emotion
displayed in the novel, and that it is the source of most of the
major conflicts that structure the novel’s plot.
The Precariousness of Social Class. As members
of the gentry, the Earnshaws and the Lintons occupy a
somewhat precarious place within the hierarchy of late
eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British society.
 The language in which is written is English but includes
Yorkshire dialect as well
 Heathcliff is the only character whose name serves as both
given name and surname
 When the book was first published, Emily Bronte decided to
publish it under a different name, Ellis Bell
 Chapters from Wuthering Heights are often read in movies, for
example in “Cold Mountain”, or appear in other books too, for
example, in “Twilight”, Wuthering Heights being Bella’s favourite
book.
 Wuthering Heights has been adapted into 4 movies ( 1920,
1939, 1992, 1970 ) and into 3 miniseries ( 1978, 1998, 2009 )