Saturday, April 2, 2016
Wuthering Heights
I am going to take this opportunity to write another proposal for my Wuthering Heights essay. I already know this is cliche but the grass seriously is not greener on the other side of the fence. That is the only theme other than love that I can actually relate to in this book. Based on the setting of Wuthering Heights (as a property) and Thrushcross Grange, Emily Brontë sees the world in two different ways: the simple polar opposites of day and night. It is simple because you wake up in the morning, see that the sun is shining through your window and your heart melts with peace. What a nice way to start your day right? Good weather clear blue sky and fresh roses blossoming from the your neighbors garden. That is the feeling of daytime. During the day you are awake, you are on your feet and you are happy. However, Emily Brontë has revealed through the existence of Wuthering Heights that she believes in opposites. It makes sense to have nighttime. It gets dark outside and things get quiet. In fact, a lot of bad things happen in the dark. Sorry to be gruesome, but people get kidnapped in the dark. Now I am not saying these things do not happen during the day. However, night has been given this image of danger and secrecy. The night represents the bad while the day represents the good; some people just do not know that. I guess Emily Brontë sees that there is some favoritism going on in the world. People prefer to look at the good instead of the bad, which is okay in order to live a positive life. But Wuthering Heights explains that you cannot have the good without the bad; it should not be ignored.
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When I was reading your blog post I was captivated by the statement that said "Emily Brontë has revealed through the existence of Wuthering Heights that she believes in opposites." I totally agree with this remark since it is represented by the two households in the novel. Thrushcross Grange is a very classy, civilized estate. Unlike Wuthering Heights it is located in a pleasant location that is not subject to severe storms. It is quite a sheltered place down in the valley and this is something that is common with its children - they tend to be sheltered and poised. As we know this is a stark contrast to the misanthropic lifestyle of Heathcliff. I understand and agree with this notion of opposites in the novel.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your discussion of opposites. A lot of the opposites in Wuthering Heights stem from the concept of duality in Gothic literature. Gothic novels typically examine the relationships between what may seem to be complete opposites. Such relationships are those between life and death, reality and the supernatural, and of course the present and past. Novels and other works of literature in this genre tend to look at what is unknown and what could possibly be more unknown than what happens when two polar opposites such as life and death interact. So much of wuthering Heights is based around this duality so common in Gothic works.
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