Today, Wuthering Heights is considered a valuable resource for students of the Gothic traditions in the eighteenth century, which incorporates this Gothic "style of literature that featured supernatural encounters, crumbling ruins, moonless nights, and grotesque imagery, seeking to create effects of mystery and fear- ("Context- 1). The novel has been studied and analyzed by many scholars, yet it still seems to contain many enigmatic features, such as the character of Heathcliff. The passionate and doomed love affair between the characters of Catherine and Heathcliff provide the setting for the "most haunting love story in all of literature- (1; Melani 1; Bloom 32).
In Wuthering Heights, Bronte's style utilizes poetic and tragic writing that significantly affects her style of literature. Bronte was strongly influenced by the poetry of Lord Byron and uses his aggressive sexuality to provide a setting of an erotic universe for Wuthering Heights. Bronte's poetic development is reflected within the characters by their uncontrollable passion and the doomed love between Catherine and Heathcliff. Bronte's poetry is thought to have depressing qualities about lost love and death, yet her happier poems are centered around the moors in which she lived and loved, which is reflected in Wuthering Heights. Her novel contains many tragic factors, which result in the many themes, such as "the destructiveness of a love that never changes- (1). Bronte's lonely and unfortunate life contributed to the tragic destinies that the characters befell "on the wind-swept moors of Yorkshire- (Tallman 1). The love between Catherine and Heathcliff is considered a tragedy because their love for each other is spiritual rather than physical, and they are only truly united after their deaths. In the novel, everyone is full of "anger, hate, and resentment- (Melani 1). With "the additional characters of Hindley, Hareton, Cathy, and Linton, as well as the uncommon ending, and the early death of our heroine,"" (Tallman 1) Wuthering Heights is considered a tragic novel ("Emily Bronte- 2).
