Wuthering Heights by Emily Jane Brontë Review

Running head: EN1004 THEORIES AND CONTEXT IN LITERATURE
EN1004 THEORIES AND CONTEXT IN LITERATURE
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EN1004 THEORIES AND CONTEXT IN LITERATURE
Wuthering heights is a novel written by Emily Bronte, and was published in the
year 1847, the publishing was under her pseudonym “Ellis Bell”. It has originally published in
the year 1850 as a second version, which was edited and arranged by her sister Charlotte
(planetebook.com, 2020). The book is considered a classic, but was criticized for its complex
structure, and the ideas the write has represented were considered a taboo in the patriarchal
society. The main themes included harshness and cruelty, religious hypocrisy pertaining in
Victorian ideals, social discrimination especially faced by women and gender inequality.
Therefore, it is mainly considered as Gothic fiction, inculcating dramatic changes in the lives of
the characters. The narrative structure of the story was also considered very distinct,
unrecognizable by other literature scholars as it had a complex structure. The thesis of the study
is to analyze the use of focalization also known as free indirect discourse, within the story
Wuthering Nights, and the first page of the story will be considered in making various
speculations about the indirect discourse used in the passage chosen.
Emily Bronte has specifically used dual narrative style, and is considered
incomprehensible to many readers, and even writers who belonged from Victorian times. The
multiple use of narration, as well as the structure in which it has been framed was full of
complexity, and it was very much criticized by the literature critics (Fletcher and Monterosso
2016). Although, the use of dual narration, was structured by Emily Bronte in such a manner,
that the story was liked by majority of young people.
The first passage on page 3, it has been depicted that in the year 1801, Lockwood,
who was a very young and wealthy person belonging from South England, was looking for a
house which can provide him peace and calmness. Therefore, rents Thrush cross Grange in
Yorkshire. The property owner of that place was known as Healthcliff, had a stature of a well
behaved man, who kept a mistress, an old servant called Joseph and a man being the member of
the family, but looked like a servant by his dressing sense. The Wuthering Heights is a love
story, which happens between Heathcliff and Catherine, but Health cliff or Catherine does not do
the narration of the story. It has been observed that in this narrative, there is a usage of “I”, but
its neither Catherine or her daughter or not even Healthcliff, which normally would have been
chosen by the writers. In here, Emily Bronte has chosen a unique and different person, to narrate
the heartless and true love story of the Catherine and Heathcliff, which was Lockwood. He is