A Gothic Theme in Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte's novel, Wuthering Heights can be categorized as a gothic novel for many reasons. Her use of the "dark element" of the ghost, the many nightmares by characters, allusions to the devil, and the many references to the dead all include themes associated with the gothic novel. Her use of these reoccurring ghosts intensifies the darkness of her work and ... and uncanny, with supernatural and unexplainable phenomena. This interest emerged at the end of the Enlightenment as a reaction to the "Age of Reason." The gothic novel was very popular during th...

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Emily Bronte's novel, "Wuthering Heights," covers all of the requisite themes necessary to earn its place in the Gothic genre: villainous behavior, helpless heroine, and horrific weather all in a decrepit, haunted setting. Conversely, Wuthering Heights, is most often described as one of the most tragic and heart breaking love stories ever told. However, revenge masked as justice and possessive jealousy parading as love are the ... thickens with hate and contempt as the story unfolds. Heathcliff truly believes that his love for Cathy is all consuming and the driving force behind everything he...

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... the finest love stories that contains a Gothic style and will always have "a secure position in the canon of world literature- ("Context- 1). Despite the negative reception of the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte has continued to impress readers with its passionate poetry and tragic vision that has transformed the genre of Gothic literature for future writers (Benvenuto 4; Shefter 3). Although ... thought to have depressing qualities about lost love and death, yet her happier poems are centered around the moors in which she lived and loved, which is reflected in Wuthering Heights. H...

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... Bronte builds Heathcliff's Byronic character by describing the appearance and movement of his eyes. In the first paragraph of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood describes Heathcliff's eyes as, "black,"" and "withdrawn suspiciously under their brows- (Bronte 3). Early on in the novel, this description provides the reader with vital, introductory information about Heathcliff "that he is a dark, and mysterious ... construct Rochester's Byronic identity) in Jane Eyre stands in contrast to Emily Bronte's use of eyes (as a tool for constructing the Byronic identity of Heathcliff) in Wuthering Height...

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... but strong-willed determination and integrity become apparent. This chapter along with chapter two also establishes the novel's mood. Beginning with Jane's experience in the red-room in chapter two, the reader senses a palpable atmosphere of mystery and the supernatural. Like Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre draws a great deal of its stylistic inspiration from the Gothic novels that were in ... vogue during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These books depicted remote, desolate landscapes, crumbling ruins, and supernatural events, all of which were designed ...

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... her basis of beauty and appreciation in other areas, and even loves him even when his hand and eye become disfigured. By the end of the novel Rochester is as down on himself as ever but Jane's professed love for him seems to humble him. He asks her "Am I hideous Jane? ... fall in place. With his wife dead and the curse lifted he feels in harmony with Jane and his vision is renewed. Heathcliff's introduction to Wuthering Heights hints at his smug disposition and lack of graciousness. Mr. Earnshaw picked him off the streets of Liverpool and brought him home out of pity ... conscious of suc...

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... as far away as if they were in the clouds themselves, a representation of the confusion that will later surround Chancery and other mysteries of the novel. The fog connects all of the people mentioned and it affects them, just as Chancery will later play the same role within the characters. But ... Meditations in Monmouth-Street in Sketches by Boz 'I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things' Dickens confirms in the preface of the novel. In this passage Dickens uses repetition as a way to emphasise his point but it is also a part of the narrator's voice, there'...

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