Visual Acts and Metaphors in Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
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From the novel Withering Heights written by Emily Bronte, Newman Beth explores the idea that
metaphors and visual acts can be clearly shown. The essay starts by an argument on the
importance of gaze and visual metaphors against the reader (Flood, Heath and Lapp). Newman
repeatedly links visual acts and narrations, for example when Emily uses visuals by presenting
diary entries that references fully folk ballads. The author has anticipated the post Jamesian pre
occupation with visual terminology. Newman argues further that the gaze raises the importance
of feminism critism (Brontë 2012) . Another way that visual acts are used in the novel is when
Lockwood ( a character in the novel) narrates of him meeting a woman who is very flirtatious
and the womans look filled him with fear and that she was a real goddess. Another scene that
illustrates a visual acts is when the Author describes Lockwoods fear of the return of the gaze
from the woman who she describes as a real goddess. Lockwood narrates that if looks had
language the merest idiot would tell that he was head over ears(p.15). Newman argues that in the
subject of the look , the woman is absent except when she sees herself seeing herself (Brontë,
Donnelly and Plaisted 2007).
According to Newman, a sense of fascination is created when Lockwood uses words of like
goddess to describe the woman he met. The look acts as a source of pleasure from Lockwood
according to Newman (Brontë, Donnelly and Plaisted 2007) . She also maintains that the novel
responds to the woman’s gaze creating a theme of visual in the novel. Newman also suggests
that the author has anticipated the post Jamesian pre occupation with visual terminology. She
also maintains that with regards to Lockwood, looking is a source of pleasure and a mode of
telling. Jacques Lacans seminars in regards to gaze may show the connection between castration
anxiety and the returning female gaze not only to Lockwood’s response to his goddess. Jacquez
assertions are that the scopic drive is what eludes the term castration. There is an onlooker , in