![Picture](/uploads/1/7/6/0/17604249/8219998.jpg)
The story is set in the harsh and isolated Yorkshire moors in Northern England. The only local town, Gimmerton, provides the location for Doctors and lawyers, though there is really only two main sites that are talked about in the story. Wuthering Heights, home to the Earnshaws and Thrushcross Grange, (also known as "the Grange") home to the Lintons, although they develop into a lot more than just the homes to characters. Bronte does a thorough job in producing an image of the setting, for the reader.
Wuthering Heights and The Grange are opposed in many ways, Wuthering Heights is dark and cold, located on a hill high above the more bright and inviting Thrushcross Grange, which is situated in the valley below. Meaning that The Grange symbolizes a certain social status. The two manors are only 3 miles apart yet it seems like characters are always getting lost in between, as they are always travelling back and forth by foot and horse. Wuthering Heights is a dark place that expects the worst in man, and to it's inhabitants it is the only reality they know. While Wuthering Heights was seen as a symbol of winter, a darker, creepier place, Thrushcross Grange could only be described as summer. The inhabitants are happy and blissful. They don't have to worry about doing things themselves as they have servants to wait on them.
Characters certainly notice the differences when they are living in the opposite house. For example when Heathcliff marries Edgar's sister Isabella, she is taken to the Heights where she is imprisoned by her husband. She writes to Nelly Dean in depression; “You’ll not be surprised Ellen, at my feeling particularly cheerless, seated in worse than solitude on that inhospitable hearth, and remembering that four miles distant lay my delightful home, containing the only people that I loved on earth; and there might as well be the Atlantic to part us, instead of those four miles; I could not overpass them!” (p. 137). When she moves to from The Grange, her life changes completely. Similar to a rich man who has everything in life, who then loses it all. Another situation where a character experiences change within their new home, is when Catherine marries Edgar moving over to the Grange. She is content and pampered, she gets anything she wants. At first she is quite happy but then realizes she misses the place she was once so eager to leave after being reminded by Heathcliff.
In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte is able to use the setting of the English moors to show to different aspects to life. One end is Wuthering Heights, which results in the cruelty that inhabitants force upon each other. The other end is Thrushcross Grange where the content atmosphere is around. For Heathcliff and Catherine, who would do anything just to be together, the only peace they can reach is in the middle of the two estates. Where they can live by there own rules. The setting in the story is truly significant in the understanding of the novel.
Answer the poll on the side to provide an input.
Wuthering Heights and The Grange are opposed in many ways, Wuthering Heights is dark and cold, located on a hill high above the more bright and inviting Thrushcross Grange, which is situated in the valley below. Meaning that The Grange symbolizes a certain social status. The two manors are only 3 miles apart yet it seems like characters are always getting lost in between, as they are always travelling back and forth by foot and horse. Wuthering Heights is a dark place that expects the worst in man, and to it's inhabitants it is the only reality they know. While Wuthering Heights was seen as a symbol of winter, a darker, creepier place, Thrushcross Grange could only be described as summer. The inhabitants are happy and blissful. They don't have to worry about doing things themselves as they have servants to wait on them.
Characters certainly notice the differences when they are living in the opposite house. For example when Heathcliff marries Edgar's sister Isabella, she is taken to the Heights where she is imprisoned by her husband. She writes to Nelly Dean in depression; “You’ll not be surprised Ellen, at my feeling particularly cheerless, seated in worse than solitude on that inhospitable hearth, and remembering that four miles distant lay my delightful home, containing the only people that I loved on earth; and there might as well be the Atlantic to part us, instead of those four miles; I could not overpass them!” (p. 137). When she moves to from The Grange, her life changes completely. Similar to a rich man who has everything in life, who then loses it all. Another situation where a character experiences change within their new home, is when Catherine marries Edgar moving over to the Grange. She is content and pampered, she gets anything she wants. At first she is quite happy but then realizes she misses the place she was once so eager to leave after being reminded by Heathcliff.
In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte is able to use the setting of the English moors to show to different aspects to life. One end is Wuthering Heights, which results in the cruelty that inhabitants force upon each other. The other end is Thrushcross Grange where the content atmosphere is around. For Heathcliff and Catherine, who would do anything just to be together, the only peace they can reach is in the middle of the two estates. Where they can live by there own rules. The setting in the story is truly significant in the understanding of the novel.
Answer the poll on the side to provide an input.