Wuthering

by Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë
Born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton,
Yorkshire, England,

Emily Brontë is best remembered for

her 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights.
The novel is set roughly between Lord
Mansfield's judgement abolishing slavery
in the UK (1772) and the lull in the War
with France (1802). These great events do
not make it directly into the novel, but
they influence aspects of it, especially a
sense of creative rebellion.
Wuthering Heights takes place in
England, mostly in the two houses,
Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross
Grange.
 climax
After Cathy’s death, Heathcliff lashes out in
anger, punishing everyone who had anything
to do with keeping him away from her.

rising action
Cathy admits she doesn’t love Edgar—that, indeed, she
would be miserable even in heaven if Heathcliff were
not there—but that she can’t degrade herself to marry
Heathcliff because he is so “low.”
falling action
As Catherine and Hareton begin to fall in love,
Heathcliff is troubled by how closely their relationship
mirrors his own youthful past with Cathy. His health
declines rapidly thanks to his nightly walks in the
moors, until one morning Hareton finds him dead.

resolution
Without Heathcliff’s dark presence to poison their
lives, Catherine and Hareton begin at last to bring love
and happiness back into the corrupted atmosphere of
Wuthering Heights.
Settings
The most outstanding
conflict in the story is class
differences.
Heathcliff loves Catherine, but their
origins are so different that they cannot
be together. The conflict reaches its
culmination when Catherine marries
another guy.
Besides the interpersonal
conflicts, there is also a
clash between the two
estates. Wuthering Heights
and Thrushcross Grange
differ by their looks and
surroundings.
"My love for Linton is like the
foliage in the woods: time will
change it, I’m well aware, as
winter changes the trees. My
love for Heathcliff resembles the
eternal rocks beneath: a source
of little visible delight, but
necessary."
Wuthering
by Emily Brontë