LITERATURE

Wuthering Heights and Rebecca



Wuthering Heights and Rebecca

Introduction

Wuthering Heights is a powerful love story that offers its readers with insightful commentary on issues that relate to class and morality. Emily Bronte has explored the established order of a community which is thrown off balance. Rebecca is written by Daphne du Maurier, and it is one of her most successful individual work. The author has taken the setting from landscape of Cornwall and the state, Manderly that has been discussed in the novel has been considered a fictional rendition of Menabilly. Rebecca is a modern gothic romance, and the unnamed narrator is the heroine of the novel.

Wuthering Heights

Character Analysis

There is really no ghost in Rebecca, though the first and deceased Mrs. de Winter pervades the entire story. You never see her, but she is a shadowy character who influences the whole. There is a ghost in Wuthering Heights, but that's only a part of the story. Both stories are Gothic, but this one is darker and more moody. Emily Bronte presented numerous characters in her novel, Wuthering Heights; however, Heathcliff, Catherine, and Earnshaw are the characters which stood apart. Heathcliff is an orphan, bought to the Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. Heathcliff fell in love with Mr. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine; who was a very beautiful, yet an arrogant girl. Although, Mr. Earnshaw and Catherine treated Heathcliff properly, but Earnshaw's son treated him as a servant.

The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, (the Italian version will be released in October under the title The Moth Diaries by Einaudi Freestyle) director Mary Harron has taken pictures of other girls difficult, students at a college spectral where clashes, tensions, jealousies and attractions are amplified up to the climax. If Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) can not overcome the trauma of the suicide of the beloved father, her best friend Lucy (Sarah Gadon) is unable to escape the attentions of the pale Ermessa (Lily Cole). A report dangerous because the newcomer, high, airy, light as a cloud, is a miserable vampire, marked by the same terrible pain of Rebecca.

House

According to a report the word Wuthering means wild, and it was positioned on the moors, four miles from Thrushcross Grange. This town was the bordering town of Gimmerton, which had a doctor as well as a parson. The farm that was located on the North of a hilltop was known as Wuthering Heights. Since it was situated on the hill, the Thrushcross Grange and the road from the farm towards Gimmerton valley being steep as well as winding were not visible from the Heights (Emiley 2011, pp. 1).

Wuthering Heights resembles a homely house of a northern farmer. However, the two houses (Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange) that are found in the novel depict opposing worlds and values. Wilderness and unhindered passion are symbolized by Wuthering Heights while Thrushcross Grange symbolizes culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation. These differences between the two houses were because of the reign of cruelty and injustice in Wuthering Heights while Thrushcross Grange was fine and peaceful ...