Romanticism in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontë, can be classified as a
Romantic novel, because it contains many tenets of Romanticism.
Romanticism was the initial literary reaction to changes in society caused
by the industrial revolution: it was an attempt to organize the chaos of
the clash between the agrarian and the industrial ways of life.
Romanticism was developing in a time in which all of society's rules,
limits, and restraints on how each person should act where being questioned,
tried, and twisted. Wuthering Heights is a Romantic novel which uses a
tale of hopeless love to describe the clash of two cultures-Neo-Classicism
and Romanticism.
One of the most significant tenets of Romanticism is the love of
the past. The first instance in which the reader finds an intimate love of
the past is when Nelly remarks how she wished Heathcliff had never been
introduced to the family, because his presence at Wuthering Heights upsets
the established order: "he bred dad feeling" (42). Another instance is
when Heathcliff realizes that his one love, Catherine, has fallen in love
with Edgar. He shows love of the past by pointing out to her how little
time she has spent with him compared to the time she spends with Edgar.
After Catherine's death, both Heathcliff and Edgar wish her back even if
they must return to fighting each other for her love. The Romantics had a
love of the past, because it is stable and predictable: all possible
scenarios have already happened.
Mr. Earnshaw's act of taking care of Heathcliff contains many
aspects of Romantici...
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...ra, Wuthering Heights
is a very Romantic work. It contains many of the tenets of Romanticism and
the development of the Byronic hero. The novel also teaches the reader to
at least respect the Romantic ideals, if not to love them like Emily Brontë
does. In the final analysis, this book is about persons trying to find
peace through rebellion in a chaotic world.
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