¶ … Mother in Wuthering Heights" by Margarret Homans, and "Myths of Power: A Marxist Study on Wuthering Heights" by Terry Eagleton, rely very heavily on their respective critical paradigms in their analysis of Bronte's novel. In some ways, to fully understand the intricacies of their arguments the reader must be steeped in the rhetoric and discourse of Marxist and Feminist criticism. However, that being said, I believe Eagleton's article provides the most illuminating and useful interpretation of the novel. There a few reasons for this. For one, Eagleton's analysis deals more with the tensions of the novel, whereas Homan's article is more concerned with Bronte as a women writer. Secondly, Eagleton's analysis sheds light on the motives of the characters in the novel, whereas Homan's article is more concerned with the motives of the author as it is reflected in her characters. Thirdly, and most importantly, Eagleton's analysis engages with the cultural tension that existed during Bronte's time, namely between Industrial Capitalism and the old agrarian way of life, thus placing the novel in a cultural context. Homan's article, on the other hand, attributes 20th century ideas of feminism, of gender and language to a 19th century text. She is attempting to fit the text, and the motives of the author and her characters, into her feminist critical paradigm, one that didn't really exist in Bronte's time. For all of these reason, Eagleton's article is the more illuminating and useful than Homan's Eagleton's analysis deals more with the tensions of the novel, whereas Homan's article is more concerned with Bronte as a women writer. Eagleton's analysis of Wuthering Heights hinges on a contrast between the novel and the works of the author's sister Charlotte Bronte. In Eagleton's opinion, "Charlotte's novels are ideological in that they exploit fiction and fable to smooth the jagged edges of real conflict...Wuthering Heights, on the...
As this passage indicates, Eagleton's main area of interest is in the tensions and contradictions in the novel.
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