What is wuthering heights about by emily bronte

By this time he has control of the Heights and with Edgar's death, he has control of the Grange. Through all of this, though, the ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff. What he truly desires more than anything else is to be reunited with his soul mate. At the end of the novel, Heathcliff and Catherine are united in death, and Hareton and Cathy are going to be united in marriage.

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Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. Book Summary. Just five years later Charlotte was dead too, but her characterisation of Emily as a freak of nature would gust down the decades, gathering sound and fury as it went. What she was trying to get at was the sense that Emily was both mythic and a shape-changer, unbound by the physical laws of the universe.

At that point a new wave of revisionary scholarship suggested that, far from being a remote and primitive hovel as Gaskell suggested, Haworth was a busy cultural centre with a keen curiosity about and attachment to what was going on in the world. There were newspapers, concerts and lectures. The bookshelves held an expansive range of literary classics. Another, complementary, set of references came from the mystery and horror of German Romantic literature, which she read in the original.

For while the little Wheelwrights were crying their eyes out, Emily was busy poring over her German grammar and reading spooky gothic tales by the likes of ETA Hoffmann. If Wuthering Heights struck contemporary critics as unrecognisably strange, it was only because then, as now, people had very short literary memories. This, after all, is the girl who, on the evidence of Wuthering Heights , seems to have considered hanging a small dog an act of sexy foreplay.

If you want to find a way of redeeming her I would suggest that it lies not in explaining away her raging unlikability but in thinking of it as a kind of performance art situated within a very particular social and economic context. While her sisters trudged out to work as governesses and hated nearly every minute of it, Emily lasted just six months as a schoolteacher, souring the mood irrevocably when she told her pupils that she was fonder of the house dog than she was of them.

She also, and this seems like the final touch of unpleasantness, became testy with her sisters when they dared to complain about the awfulness of having to earn their keep by living with strangers. Despite there being two servants to look after the modestly sized parsonage and one modestly sized parson, Emily made a case for needing to be onsite as an extra housekeeper.

She was cannily alert, too, to the way that the literary market worked. The following year Wuthering Heights was published. Emily Bronte lived from to Although she wrote only Wuthering Heights and about a dozen poms she is accepted as one of the most gifted writers ever. Perhaps the intensity of her writing grew out of the extraordinary pressures of her home life.

Emily's mother died when she was three and she lived with her four sisters and one brother in a bleak, isolated Yorkshire village — Haworth. Her father doted on his only son, Branwell, and expected little from his daughters — they surprised him while Branwell wasted his life and died an alchoholic and drug addict. The girls suffered dreadfully at a cheap boarding school, the oldest two dying of malnutrition. Emily, Charlotte and Anne were brought home just in time but Emily never lost her terrible fear of institutions and of being closed in.

The sisters later became governesses to help support Branwell, seen by their father as a future great artist. They also began to publish their writing, under male pen-names as there was much prejudice against women writers.

Their first book, a collection of poetry, failed but Emily's novel Wuthering Heights , was highly acclaimed and is still widely read today. Emily seldom left her home village yet produced one of the most powerful novels of the inner self ever written. She caught a cold at her brother's funeral in and died a few months later. Some of her lyrics are also rated with the best in English poetry.

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