Analysis of Fiction Elements in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Analysis of Fiction Elements in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte developed characters that revolved around actual

experiences from her childhood. Emily was born and raised in Thornton,Yorkshire. Haworth, a

suburb of Yorkshire in Northern England, was far away from cultural London. The Haworth

parsonage was nearly surrounded by a graveyard. Emily and her siblings spent most of their lives

with this gloomy setting.

Patrick Bronte, an Irish clergyman, was the father of six children. All of the children were

very disciplined due to the enforced and cruel discipline of their father. Maria Bronte died of

typhus, leaving her children without a motherly figure. Emily was fiercely independent. She was

strongly opposed to formal religion. This could have been from the hardship she endured as a

child. Emily felt no love from her aunt Branwell, who took care of them when her mother died.

Aunt Branwell was a very religious person, yet had no compassion in her life for her nieces. She

felt no bond between them (Barrons7). In Jane Eyre this real life situation was recreated between

Jane and her Aunt Reed (11). Emily was left in the care of an aunt who had absolutely no

affection for her. These real life situations became themes throughout the books written by both

Emily and Charlotte Bronte. Emily became very loyal to her father and found it hard to leave her

home environment. She stayed with her ill brother until his death in September 1848, at the early

age of 30. At the funeral of her brother, Emily caught a cold and never left the house again. She

went into a deep depression. Her sisters couldn't help her. Emily died at the early age of 30,

never knowing about the success Wuthering Heights would experience. Her father, Patrick

Bronte, outlived all of his children (The Professor 5). After the tragedy of Emily's death, her

sister Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, which became an immediate success.

So devastated over the death of his beloved wife, Patrick retreated to his study. To fulfil

the duties as a pastor, he left his study. The children were left mostly to themselves, leaving

much time to create an imagination through books and writing. Most of these stories and