Concetti Chiave
- Emily Bronte and her sisters were inspired by the isolated Yorkshire moors, fueling their unique blend of romance and realism in their novels.
- Emily's novel "Wuthering Heights," published in 1847, is considered the most dramatic work among the sisters' creations.
- The Bronte siblings, educated by their father, developed a rich fantasy world to compensate for their lack of social interactions.
- "Wuthering Heights" features dual narrators: Lockwood, an external narrator, and Nelly, a servant who recounts the story to him.
- The central theme of "Wuthering Heights" revolves around the complex, necessary love between Cathy and Heathcliff, challenged by societal constraints.
Emily Bronte was one of three sisters who lived with their father and brother Bradwall in the villafe of Haworth, a small community in the middle of the deserted Yorkshire moors in the North England.
Inspired by the wild, open countryside around them, their imagination stimulated by their isolation, all three sisters produced novels which combine romance and realism in a unique way.
The most dramatic of these novels is Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights which was published in 1847.
In compensation of this, they created complex world of fantasy which became as real for them as the ordinary world.
About this imaginary world, they wrote many literary stories that helped to develop their literary ability.
Wuthering Heights has two narrators: an external one (Lockwood) and an internal one (the servant Nelly who tells Lockwood the story of Cathy).
The main theme of Wuthering Heights is the impossible but necessary love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. They are two halves of the some souls, of the mythical androgyne. But this love story is limited by society: Cathy has to marry another man in order to find her place in the society and then help Heathcliff.
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