Wuthering Heights in Relation to Bronte’s Life

Wuthering heights Relation to Emily Brontes life Characterization 1. Hindley- Bronte used the character of Hindley to represent her brother. Emily Brontes brother drank himself to dying just as Hindley did. 2. Edgar- When Catherine died, Edgar became exceedingly private and quiet. Edgar represents Emily Brontes own father. When Brontes mother died, her father followed the selfsame(prenominal) pattern that Edgar did by secluding himself and becoming very quiet. 3. Catherine- Emily Bronte personifies her dislike for womens position in society with Catherines love for Heathcliff.Because women are non listened to, Bronte represents herself as a man, Heathcliff, in order to be listened to. 4. Catherine Cold- Emily Bronte caught a cold at her brothers funeral. Setting Emily lived in an isolated area called Haworth in the westside Riding area of Yorkshire. Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange both reflect the isolated area where she lived. Because they were isolated socially by there geographical location, Emily and her siblings created fictional worlds.Emily and her sister Anne created Gondal which is a land of moors, and the world is reflected in moors surrounding the twain houses. Wuthering Heights literally means stormy heights. Emilys life had many hardships or storms throughout her life, much(prenominal) as, her brothers alcoholism and some of her family dying from tuberculosis. Emily was home schooled because she easily became homesick when away at normal schools. This can be seen through young Catherine because Catherine is home schooled and not aloud to see the remote world without her fathers supervision.Mood I. Tragic A. Death in Wuthering Heights B. Death during Emilys life sentence C. Tuberculosis-caused death of characters D. Tuberculosis-caused death of family E. Drunkeness of Hindley Earnshaw F. Drunkeness of Brontes brother II. Isolated 1. Cathy and her father 2. Bronte and her father 3. Characters and their reading 4. Emily and her reading notation 1. Defiant tone intensity Catherine is naughty, does not behave. She is against society They both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages (46, chapter 6). She also believed she could do what she wanted. if I marry Linton I can aid Heathcliff to rise, and posterior him out of my brothers power (82, chapter 9). Life Emily was persistent in her goals and beliefs. She and her sisters attempted to open a school, but it failed because of isolation. Before setting the school up she attended an academy to finish studying French and German. In addition, the three sisters published their works under false names because women writers were discriminated against during the time. 2. Humorous tone Book Both Catherine and Cathy have a humorous tone in some scenes.The two have the object to not take everything seriously all of the time. Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going-singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same ( 42, chapter 5). Cathy has a joyful mood in many instances the first talking closely the Crags. Life Emily had two imaginary worlds, although she broke off from the first when she was 13 (Angria) The second one, Gondal, she kept on with until she died. 3. Dark, depressing tone Both Emilys life and the novel are filled with the dark tone.Death is ordered and parallels with one another. Structure Symbolism The cold dark kitchen that is described at the beginning of the book is a symbol of the hatred Emily had for the womans station that is symbolized by a kitchen. Heathcliffs starving of himself symbolizes his hunger for life, and in his case his life is Catherine. This relates to Bronte through her own hunger for greater experiences, love, and happiness. She was also anorexic, so heathcliffs physical starvation relates to her own.