Remoteness and Loneliness in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Essay

Remoteness and Loneliness in Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteEmily Bronte loved nature and spent most of her childhood on the unlike Yorkshire Moors near her crime syndicate in Haworth. Emily found that theMoors were a place of peace and sanctuary where she could retreat torelax and follow one of her most favourite past times, which waswriting. However she knew that in a matter of seconds the Moors couldchange into a wild and savage wilderness.Emily chose this ever-changing setting for her only novel WutheringHeights. Wuthering Heights tells the tale of two families alimentation inand around the bleak Yorkshire Moors near a small village, verysimilar to Haworth, called Gimmerton. This setting mirrors thepersonalities of the savage and brutal characters. These characterslive in a unconnected and weather ravaged working farmhouse calledWuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights acquired its name due to the,atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weatherThe inhabitant s of Wuthering Heights need to be tough to survive andonly those characters born in Wuthering Heights are able to survivewithin it. When Hindley returns from University with his wife Francesshe dies rather quickly as she cannot survive the savage weatherconditions. We do not expect Hindley to die but as he has been awayfrom Wuthering Heights for so long he in like manner cannot survive. Howeverthere are other reasons for his death. When Heathcliff returns fromhis absence he stays with Hindley, and gets his long awaited revengeby slowly luring Hindley into gambling and alcoholism. This is the main(prenominal) cause of his death. If Wuthering Heights was not set in much(prenominal) anisolated place Heathcliff would not have been able to torture and... ...alanced and would not have been as successful withVictorian audiences. Imagery using nature was not seen or heard ofvery much in large industrial cities such as London or Liverpool so anovel set in the remote Yorkshire Moors was i nevitably going to beinteresting for the inhabitants of the city to read. WutheringHeights would be neither realistic nor interesting and would not havethe excitement that it is famous for without its setting. It wouldbecome boring and average and would not have made such an impact withits new ideas and scandals such as Catherine falling in love with heradoptive brother Heathcliff. However perhaps with a less savage andremote setting the characters would have been happier and mostimportantly the tragic yet futile love of Catherine and Heathcliffcould have continued not only in their deaths but also in their lives.