Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte is an author who was born in 1818. She is known for publishing her only novel, Wuthering Heights, in 1847 under the name of Ellis Bell, a year before her death. Her stellar work of art, Wuthering Heights, narrates her experience with both the Romantic periods, which lasted from years 1785 to 1830, to that early Victorian era, from 1830 to 1848 (Landers).
The Theme of Love in Wuthering Heights
The Wuthering Heights is a passionate story of a love triangle involving two family generations that intermarry. These families are the Earnshaws and the Lintons. The love tale includes a technique of a story within a story, and is narrated by two different characters. It is of importance to note that the two characters also happen to have different knowledge about the two families. One character has a profound knowledge of the families. Her name is Ellen Nelly Dean, while the other, Mr. Lockwood, is barely ignorant of the two families' history. The first love triangle is that of Edgar Linton, Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, whereas the second love triangle is the one involving Heathcliff's son, Linton Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw's daughter and nephew; Catherine Linton, and Hareton Earnshaw. In this narrative, it is quite apparent that Heathcliff is devoted to Edgar Linton's sister, Isabella Linton.
Lockwood is a well-heeled and cultured man seeking to be friends with Nelly Dean. He suffers a long illness caused by a storm in his attempt to visit Heathcliff, keeping him bedridden for a couple of weeks. Nelly, on the other hand, has been brought up by the Earnshaws and Linston families as a servant. Because of this, she has been in a position to deeply know the two families. For instance, in cases of family dramas. Nelly's...
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