Storm & Calm in Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights :: Wuthering Heights Essays

Wuthering Heights behave & Calm The theme of Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is a universe of opposing forces-storm and calm. Wuthering Heights, the farming of storm, is a sturdy house that is set up high on the windy moors, belonging to the Earnshaw family. The house is highly charged with emotion of hatred, cruelty, violence, and gaga lovemaking. In comparison, Thrushcross Grange, the land of calm, is settled in the valley and is the residence of the polite Lintons. The same differences exists between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, as they do in Heathcliff and Edgar. As Catherine points out, the contrast between the two resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, scorch country, for a beautiful fertile valley. (Bronte 72) The Lintons, and the social and material advantages they stand for de kick downstairs Heathcliffs rivals for Catherines love, which leads directly to the central conflict of the novel. Heathcliff despises them at first sight fo r their weakness, tho Catherine, being an extremely proud girl, is tempted. A lovers triplicity begins to take definite shape when the aristocratic Edgar Linton falls in love with Catherine, upsetting the balance between the relationship of Catherine and Heathcliff. Edgars love for Catherine is sincere, but the element of great passion which is strongly characterized does not compare to Heathcliffs love. The difference between Catherines feeling for Heathcliff and the one she feels for Linton is that Heathcliff is a part of her nature, while Edgar is only a part of her superficial love. For he (Heathcliff), resembling her, is a child of storm and this makes a bond between them, which interweaves itself with the in truth nature of their existence. (Cecil 26) Emily Bronte makes a point in the novel to mention the concomitant that Catherines affection for Heathcliff remains unchanged in spite of the Lintons turn over her. As Catherine confesses to Nelly that Heathcliff and her shar e the same soul, and also declares I am Heathcliff. (Bronte 84) Her pride, yearning for the world of the Lintons, has gotten the better of her natural inclination, and she knows she has made the wrong stopping point by marrying Edgar. Catherine, naturally a child of storm, is unable to develop at Thrushcross Grange, while she is married to Edgar. Her mind becomes disturbed, which is the first sign of her degeneration. The pragmatic cosmos at the Grange cannot fill the void that she has made for herself in leaving her violent childhood environment.