Scarica Cime tempestose/WUTHERING HEIGHTS e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! WUTHERING HEIGHTS Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed nobility living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relations with the Earnshaws' adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by romanticism and Gothic fiction. Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written in English. He was controversial for his depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for his challenges to Victorian morality and religious and social values. THE PLOT This classic of English literature first published in 1847, tells the story of a destructive love, Heathcliff’s one for stepsister Catherine, which takes place on a high and windy hill of the Yorkshire, in an estate called precisely Wuthering Heights. The story goes and Mr Lockwood, who forty years later finds himself spending the night in the estate and who intrigued by the presence of strange characters, asks for explanations to the elderly housekeeper Nelly Dean. The story of the woman begins from the day when Mr Earnshaw, owner of Wuthering Heights, brings home from a visit to Liverpool an orphan with dark skin: Heathcliff. The boy ties himself deeply to Catherine, Mr Henshaw’s daughters, but the social differences end up separating them, even if their friendship has now turned into love. Catherine marries rich and kind Edgar Linton, while desperately loving Heatcliff , and when he learns of the marriage, he swears revenge. His passion is so violent that it leads him to the destruction of Eastshaw and Linton. Only shortly before Catherine’s untimely death the two will be able to declare their infinite love beyond death, so much so that the inhabitants of the forest, many years later, claim to see two ghosts walking on the moor hand in hand. THE CHARACTERS Heathcliff: is a foundling from Liverpool, who is taken by Mr Earnshaw to Wuthering Heights, where he is cared for by his family and spoiled by his adopted father. He and Mr Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine, approach and their love is the central theme of the first volume. Heathcliff was considered a Byronic hero, He has an ambiguous position in society, and his lack of status is underlined by the fact that "Heathcliff" is both his name and his surname. Catherine Earnshaw: First introduced to the reader after his death, through Lockwood’s discovery of his diary and engravings. She dies hours after giving birth to her daughter. Edgar Linton: Introduced as a child to the Linton family. Edgar’s style and manners are in stark contrast to those of Heathcliff, who hates him immediately, and Catherine, who is attracted to him. Catherine marries him instead of Heathcliff because of his higher social status, with disastrous results for all the characters in the story. Ellen (Nelly) Dean: The main narrator of the novel, Nelly is a servant of three generations of the Earnshaws and two of the
