1. Comparing The Bronte Sisters
... Heights was published it received no praise rather, it seemed, everyone disdained the book and its characters. Lady Eastlake in the Quarterly Review of December 1848 said that almost every word that she utters offends us'- (Knapp 107). People were dismayed at the brutal setting and the unforgivable characters, by writing Wuthering Heights Emily broke many invisible boundaries that had existed in previous ... literature. Emily's characters do not represent the romantic literature that prevailed at the time. Her novel is one where the characters destroy themselves and everything around th...
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