Narrations in Wuthering Heights

Perhaps just exploring one aspect of the techniques of the novel would prove the extent of this writer's talent.

If one explored the narrative techniques she used, one would be convinced of the scope of her talent. Along the novel she uses different narrative techniques that take the reader through different times and settings. And all the while her narrators give her the chance to stand far away from the book presenting it to the reader without any authorial intervention from her part.

The novel opens with Mr. Lockwood's narration. Lockwood is the new tenant for Thrushcross Grange, which is the neighboring house to Wuthering Heights.

The year 1801 signals out the beginning of his narration which is set out in the present t

Mrs.Dean is the major narrator of the novel. Mostly all that we know of Wuthering Heights comes from her. She is our main source of information which is given, of course, through Mr. Lockwood who in his turn narrates it to us.

As an outsider Mr. Lockwood doesn't seem to affect the run of the novel. He has no deep participation in its events. He is more like an observer whose fate brought him into the intricate web of Wuthering Heights and he found himself unable to resist the lure of knowing its mystifying history.

Mrs. Dean's influence on the course of the narration goes beyond her way of speaking about the characters, but she has even tried at times to influence the course of events. After the quarrel scene when Catherine hurts her. Mrs. Dean encourages Edgar Linton to go home and leave Catherine telling him "Miss is dreadfully wayward, sir" "you'd better be riding home, or else she will be sick only to grieve us"

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