When looking at the repercussions of desire in Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the outcome is almost entirely a negative one. But if taken in perspective and out of the context of Wuthering Heights, desire can be seen to change lives for the better; rather than the root of evil it becomes the cause of good. ... But when looked at in Wuthering Heights, desire is the cause of evil and vengeance, and specifically Heathcliff's fall from grace and transformation into a vengeful, heartless man. ... Heathcliff is continually plotting his revenge for the poor treatment he has received from t...

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All may have been available to the author of Wuthering Heights (1847), whose own richly experimental novel works with intricate permutations of multiple narrative, unreliable narration, and two-volume structure. ... The reader of Wuthering Heights may at first suppose that Lockwood is to be the narrator of this novel: for three chapters, indeed, he performs this role, and this device has much to do with the novel's ultimate significance. ... His first task is to take us from Thrushcross Grange, where he is tenant, to Wuthering Heights where his landlord lives. ... working farmhouse is ...

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