One of the ways characters are presented as disturbed, is through their violence. In 'Wuthering Heights', Emily Bronte uses repetition, alliteration and onomatopoeia to emphasise the maliciousness of Heathcliff's violent threats to Isabella. ... 'Wuthering Heights' is set in the lonely, bleak Yorkshire moors. ... Thrushcross Grange is described as having decorative and luxurious items like "crimson-covered chairs and tables", whereas Wuthering Heights is much more bleak and bare and Lockwood describes it with words like "grotesque". ... The charact...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the forward to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, her sister Charlotte Bronte describes the protagonist, Heathcliff, to have "a passion such as might boil and glow in the bad essence of some evil genius;- (C. ... Heathcliff's "story is a long list of morally reprehensible actions- (Holderness 27). ... Without Heathcliff as the central figure of Wuthering Heights, the novel lacks a meaningful theme. ... As Heathcliff tries to reenter Wuthering Heights against Hindley's wishes he "kicks and tramples on Hindley, and dashes his head repeatedly against the flags- (E. ... He sets th...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The word originates from kanon' a Greek word meaning instrument of measure and has developed to connote a list of important authors and their works, concerned with sorting the "orthodox from the heretical- . ... It would not be possible or desirable to produce a list that simply contained all the works of authors over time, so a list must be created by disseminating texts by their "goodness- . ... Wuthering Heights is widely held to be a canonic text, since it has had such undeniable resonance with its readers since its publication. This originated as a reaction of disgust from polite...

• Word Count: 2215
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate