Race Discourse In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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Written by Turki S. Althubaiti, Race Discourse In Wuthering Heights, is a critical essay that is part of the European Scientific Journal - an online peer reviewed, open access journal, that is issued monthly and contains high quality research articles. The critical essay was written on March 15, 2015, and was produced in order to explore Emily Bronte’s use of racial discourse within her novel Wuthering Heights. The essay would appeal to those interested in humanities or more specifically, the way nineteenth-century race is explored in Wuthering Heights.

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The essay begins by stating Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights ‘somehow embodies’ racial discourse (p201). Described as a well written, mysterious and racially explorative text, Wuthering Heights is a novel that is constructed in the essay to be a text that explores race in the nineteenth century. The essay, containing much critical analysis, suggests the novel and Heathcliff more specifically break away from the traditional nineteenth century thought and cultural understanding whilst highlighting the notion of white superiority to be …show more content…

A well written and analytical inquiry, the essay is effective in highlighting the ways in which Wuthering Heights is an exploration of race in the nineteenth century. Turki Althubaiti uses many secondary sources in order to effectively consider how race and racial prejudice is reflected through the character Heathcliff. Althubaiti beautifully describes Emily Bronte’s authentic novel as an ‘imaginative art’ that ‘embodies the tensions and conflicts- racial, social, personal and spiritual - of nineteenth century capitalist society’ (p222). He also concludes Wuthering Heights proves to be a place where racial and societal norms were displaced and the dark skinned man with deep black eyes, is not a goblin or a ghoul, rather, ‘a human being, and free, like everyone else’

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