Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights Essay -- Emily Bronte Wuthering Heigh

Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights1)The story takes place in the early XIXth century. There are bothcharacters in this extract Mr Lockwood and Catherine Linton. MrLockwood is the first narrator of this novel, he was one of MrHeathcliffs tenants. At the beginning of the story , there were threecharacters Heathcliff, a foundling, his sister Catherine and hisbrother Hindley. Catherine feral in love with Heathcliff, but wasmarried with Edgar Linton. So, the second character we meet here isCatherine Linton, Edgar Lintons daughter. This extract belongs to theend of the novel. Catherine comes back to the conjure Wuthering Heights,she tries to get in the reside trough the window. Mr Lockwood, whichhad read Catherines diary, does not recognize her.2)In this text, Mr Lockwood is in his bed room at Wuthering Heights, heis alone and he had to stay in the farm because of the snow. He isdisturbed by the gusty wind and the incessant move of the fir-bough.So he tries to stop this teasing noise, opening the window and seizingthe branch. When his fingers grabbed the branch, another(prenominal) cold handcaught his. Then the context makes the text become an ambiguousexperience and we can say that this extract is set between sanity and fury to some extents.First of all, we will see that this text relates an ambiguousexperience. The atmosphere is gloomy Mr Lockwood is alone in anisolated farm, everithing is dark around him and there are manyteasing noises. So we can say that the atmosphere is quitenightmarish. Mr Lockwood had found Catherine Lintons diary, and hehad read it. So he knows the passion between Catherine Linton and MrHeathcliff, the owner of Wuthering Heights. The first contact between... ...ieve that what he is living is a hallucination, aproduct of his liking because nothing seems to be real. Maybethat the excessive feelings mentionned are caused by Mr Lockwoodsimagination for the reader, the atmosphere is not very threatening.As in many pre-Romantic novel, th e nightmarish atmosphere, symbolisedby the darkness, the moor, the winter, is the source of imaginationand also of fear imagination and extreme feelings corresponding fear arelinked together.We could make a link between this novel from Emily Bront and theshort stories by Edgar Allan Poe, like in The Raven for example.Indeed, Poe wrote his short stories in the same period as EmilyBront. In The Raven, the power of imagination, the supranatural andthe unreal have also a great place, and we could note, as in WutheringHeights, that the feelings expressed are a good deal excessive.