Structure of Wuthering Heights (AO2)
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- Created on: 12-05-16 13:25
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- Structure of Wuthering Heights
- Classic pattern with is recurrent in literature since Greek Tradgey
- 1. Harmony- Happy Earnshaw family
- 2. Destruction of harmony- Heathcliff's arrival and presents broken
- 3. Restoration of Harmony- Catherine and Hareton's marriage
- Two main narrators- Nelly and Lockwood
- Bronte carefully controls the release of plot information and can deflate the development of tension e.g. having Lockwood interrupt Nelly's narrative
- Lockwood being the outsider from the South
- Time in the novel
- Deliberately non-linear, unlike other texts (Macbeth)- all the events of Wuthering Heights can be unravelled and reconstructed against a fixed time-line.
- Significant jumps into the narrative and some bits not explained (Heathcliff's experiences outside of the text). Because of this structure these are less strikingly obvious.
- Mirroring used in the Structure
- Heathcliff suffered at the hands of Hindley, now Hindley's son Hareton suffers at the hands of Heathcliff
- Hareton and Catherine- whose social stations echo those previous (Heathcliff and Cathy) are married.
- Two parallel love stories- Cathy and Heathcliff/ Catherine and Hareton
- Happy Ending?
- Heathcliff and Cathy are reunited and are spotted wondering the moors together.
- Degree of ambiguity however, will the future really be happier than the past, given how damaged the characters have been?
- Classic pattern with is recurrent in literature since Greek Tradgey
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