Wuthering Heights is a house set high upon a hill where exposed to extreme weather conditions. Storms often came “rattling over the heights in full fury.” Storms which have “growling thunder,” and “great drop.” “‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.” The Heights are not very pleasing to the eye either. Bronte describes the building as a harsh, cold house where, “the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall and the corners defended with large jutting stones.” She depicts it as having a “pervading spirit of neglect,” being filled with un-cheerful things such as dull embellishment and cruel dogs. The description of, “a few stunted firs at the end of the house

As we visualize Wuthering Heights, the people within its wall and the storm that clatter its window that the place is symbolic of malice, malevolence, and passion. However, we also able to deduct that Thrushcross Grange represent good and peace. These contrasts supported which estate was good, and which was evil. Throughout the novel, the two estates are set against each other. This symbolizes the theme of good verse evil.

When Lockwood saw the interior of the house for the first time, he notes that the “corners defended with large jutting stones”, the “kitchen forced to retreat altogether into another quarter”, that “above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns,” and that “the chairs, high-backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade.” The author described the house with human characteristics, using descriptive terms to give the impression of a defensive and unwelcoming. Thrushcross Grange, the neighboring property four miles away, is more enclosed, being surrounded by hills and less at the mercy of the bitter winds and storms. In

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