Wuthering Heights and Dickens’ novels

Wuthering Heights’ plot

This novel written by Emily Brontë but the narrators in the story are a lot.

As a matter of fact, Lockwood’s eyes, in the first place, allow the reader to learn Heathcliff, an orphan adopted by the Earnshaw’s family, and Catherine Earnshaw (his half-sister)’s tragic love story, since he wanted to rent from Hindley Earnshaw, their bigger brother, Thrushcross Grange.

They lived together their infancy at Wuthering Heights. The house is called in this way because of the windy place it was settled down, and it also can be considered a naturalistic metaphor that resembles the main character’s turbulent temperaments and the events that are caused by this characteristic.
Despite that, Catherine and Heathcliff got on well each other and they started to passionately to be meant to be together.
On the other hand, circumstances, such as class differences, societal expectations, and jealousy, let the fury fulfil their heart instead of love and tenderness.
All of these facts are narrated to Lockwood by the Earnshaw’s nanny Ellen “Nelly” Dean, who became the governess of Thrushcross Grange.

Heathcliff, after being mistreated by Catherine because he was not refined and aristocrat, left Wuthering Heights. During this time he tried to change himself and, in fact, he returned years later as both a wealthy and a vengeful man. He had the strong pulsion to hurt everyone who has wronged him through manipulation of the relationships and the will to destroy every life until the very end.

So, it is not surprising that Heathcliff’s obsession with Catherine continued even afterher death, caused by an illness, until the next generation interpretated by Catherine’s daughter, also named Catherine, and Hareton. Without even be fully aware of that, they found themselves entangled in the legacy of their parents' turmoil.
At the end, maybe redemption and peace will be pursued but if the souls continue to be broken and corrupted this will always remain an utopia.

Differences between Bronte and Dickens' literay works

The main difference between Wuthering Heights of Emily Bronte and Dickens’ novels is in the setting. Wuthering Heights is set in the country-side while Dickens always sets his novels in great industrial towns, and in particular in London.
Dickens describes the world of the outcast, of the people belonging to the city; he deals with the poor people and the workers and often talks about the workhouses.

His issues were hot and contemporary, expressed in an interesting way because his aim was that to entertain people. He tries to teach something through his novels and relies on people to change their opinions by reading them.

In fact, any reader can identify himself with the characters or situations presented in his novels. In this way the more educated and wealthier classes could acquire knowledge of their poorer neighbors, and thus of this other reality that was not that distant.

Environment and themes in Bronte and Dickens' novels

On the other hand, Emily Bronte sets her novel in the countryside where the aristocracy had moved to after leaving the city. These people had a different education, a different culture and traditions.

In her novel Emily Bronte talks about individualism, with Heathcliff who dies alone, while in Dickens’ novels people often socialize and care for their families.