Wuthering Heights is a rather isolated home situated on the top of a hill, belonging to the Earnshaws – Mr and Mrs Earnshaw, Catherine and Hindley and Heathcliff - a "gypsy brat" described as "as dark almost as if it came from the devil" whom Mr Earnshaw found and brought back from his trip to Liverpool. Thrushcross Grange is the home of Edgar and Isabella Linton, an estate closer to the town and nicer than that of Wuthering Heights. Thrushcross Grange was in the valley, sheltered from the violent winds and storms that Wuthering Heights tolerated. Mr Lockwood describes Wuthering Heights as “…atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather…..one may guess the power of the north wind, blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house…..as if craving alms of the sun”.

Throughout Emily Bronte’s' novel there is a clear establishment of symbolism between the two estates. Thrush

The way in which Catherine, Heathcliff and Edgar are buried also give an aspect of the conflict, which was apparent throughout the novel.

Ghosts are apparent throughout ‘Wuthering Heights and Emily Bronte emphasizes this by making the reader unsure of whether they really exist or not. When Catherine appears to Lockwood, it could be argued that he was dreaming, yet she simply states that “I’ve been a waif for 20 years”, symbolizing not her death (as Catherine dies in 1784 and Lockwood arrives in 1802, which is only seventeen years since her death) but her detachment from Heathcliff after marrying Edgar. Lockwood had been reading her entries into a book beforehand, yet had not read of her marriage to Edgar or such, so he was therefore unaware of what this meant or symbolized. Before Catherine’s death, she becomes delusional and her mind returns her to childhood, “Look! That’s my room, with the candle in it, and the trees swaying before it…and the other candle is in Joseph’s garret…Joseph sits up late, doesn’t he? He’s waiting till I come home that he may lock the gate”. This is an example of Catherine’s yearning for peace and convergence between her and Heathcliff. This incident symbolizes the untroubled and carefree nature of which Heathcliff and herself experienced as children, without the pressure of decisions and society.

cross Grange appears to be calm, refined and welcoming, whereas Wuthering Heights appears wild, disrupted and hostile. Lockwood mentions this sense of hostility on his first visit to Wuthering Heights, “He (Heathcliff) wished no repetition of my intrusion…..it is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him”. Both of

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