According to the dictionary a narrative means " a narrated account; telling a story.
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights can be described as having a unique narrative style. .
Wuthering Heights narrative style can be described as a story within a story. This is known as .
frame narrative. Wuthering Heights as two major narrators, Nelly Dean and Mr. Lockwood who .
are the obvious narrators, and tell the story as third person narrators and then one minor narrator, .
Isabella who is a first person narrator. This essay will look into the narrative techniques used by .
Emily Bronte.
The first story that we are introduced to is the one of Lockwood. Lockwood is a tenant at .
Thrushcross Grange and his landlord is Heathcliff, the owner of Wuthering Height and .
Thrushcross Grange. After visiting his landlord Lockwood becomes ill and since Lockwood .
becomes fascinated with what happened at the Heights and Grange, Nelly Dean tells him what .
happened. Nelly's story is the story within the story of Lockwood visit. Throughout the whole .
novel the story jumps between the two story's and in the end is finished with Lockwood .
returning to the moors and finding that the harmony and peace has been restored with the death .
of Heathcliff. An example of how the novel jumps between story's is "Another week over-and I .
am so many days nearer health and spring! I have heard all my neighbor's history, at different .
sittings, as the housekeeper could spare time from more important occupations."(Pg 152) This is .
a quote that is stating how Lockwood seems to be getting better and how he talks about the story .
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that Nelly has been telling him. This quote is an example of both stories, the present with .
Lockwood and about what has happened in the lives of the people on the moors.
The first narrator introduced to the reader is Mr. Lockwood. Lockwood provides the .
background for the reader in the first three chapters. "This writing, however, was nothing but a .
