Literature Analysis

1. Wuthering Heights is essentially a love story about Heathcliff, a mysterious man.  Heathcliff ends up falling for a girl named Catherine whom he can't have due to his social status. He was an orphan as a child but was adopted into the Earnshaw family. Catherine, Heathcliff's love, ends up dying before he gets a chance to be with her and it isn't until death when they are able to be united.
2. The theme of Wuthering Heights is the overwhelming power of love. Love can cause you to make rash decisions and go against the standards of society.
3. Bronte's tone is one of dark romance. The love between Heathcliff seems doomed at times but has a glimmer of hope.
-" I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother."
- " If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it."
- " He'll never let his friends be at ease, and he'll never be at ease himself!"
4. Imagery, symbolism, diction, tone, and genre all helped me understand the theme of the novel. Bronte used vast imagery that allowed me to picture the novel in my head. The genre of story, being gothic and romantic also helped me understand the theme of romance.
-"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day. " (tone)
-"He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly." (imagery)
-"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."