As a piece of gothic literature, death is invariably one of the primary aspects of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte. Having come into contact with loss and grief from a young age – Bronte herself grew up in a motherless household and lost her two eldest sisters to sickness – her portrayal is somewhat unconventional in the spectrum of ways in which her characters ... of grief as a natural process in the cycle of life. Heathcliff is described 'groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion', 'groaning' denoting an oral expression of suffering, Bronte additionally e...

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... that he never actually sees a ghost, but simply has an intense vision in the midst of his dream. It seems likely, however, that Emily Bronte would have intended the ghost to seem real to her readers: such a supernatural phenomenon would certainly be in keeping with the Gothic tone pervading ... love story, Heathcliff never becomes an entirely inhuman or incomprehensible character to the reader, no matter how sadistically he behaves. Many scholars believe that Bronte intended her novel to be a moralizing, cautionary tale about the dangers of loving too deeply. If this is true, then one mi...

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