Wuthering Heights is a unique work written by a writer who can be described as nonprofessional and professional all at the same time; nonprofessional because Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights without any real tutelage in the art of writing novels. The book is simply a pure expression of her raw untutored talent. But yet the novel comes as if written by a professional who has mastered the different techniques to present such a complex work; complex in its plot, its characters, and even its style. .
Perhaps just exploring one aspect of the techniques of the novel would prove the extent of this writer's talent.
If one explored the narrative techniques she used, one would be convinced of the scope of her talent. Along the novel she uses different narrative techniques that take the reader through different times and settings. And all the while her narrators give her the chance to stand far away from the book presenting it to the reader without any authorial intervention from her part. .
The novel opens with Mr. Lockwood's narration. Lockwood is the new tenant for Thrushcross Grange, which is the neighboring house to Wuthering Heights. .
The year 1801 signals out the beginning of his narration which is set out in the present time. He is the present-time narrator of Wuthering Heights coming to these Yorkshire moors at a time when most of the events of the story of the people there had already happened and he can see now many of its subsequences which confuse and mystify him.
Mr.Lockwood is an extrinsic narrator, a stranger to Wuthering Heights and its household, much like ourselves. And as Mr. Lockwood introduces himself to Mr. Heathcliff, his landlord, we as readers seem to be also introduced to this "Capital fellow!" "who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than" Lockwood. Through Mr. Lockwood's eyes we are also introduced to the main setting of the novel Wuthering Heights. ""Wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
