Wuthering heights analysis
“Terror made me cruel”(30). In Emily Bronte’s novel of Gothic fiction, Wuthering Heights, Bronte presents an almost convoluted idea of a supernatural role which would begin to play a significant part in aiding readers to unravel and appreciate the delicate plot of her story. Beginning in chapter three with the dreams explained by Mr. Lockwood, and dispersing amongst the remainder of the book through to the the end, the concepts of ghosts and the supernatural provide us with pivotal information that would lead us to later question the motives of various characters such as Heathcliff, and determine weather we could appreciate the novel in its entirety.With the accompaniment, but the necessity of the belief in such paranormal acquaintances, the reader can further appreciate the character of Heathcliff and the story of Wuthering Heights as a whole. The character of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, can take our sympathy and appreciation to levels of heightened devotion but later deploy them to places of hatred with his cruel actions; it is the belief in ghosts and the supernatural that help us to appreciate his character even after he displays his dark and provincial desires. In Chapter three, Mr. Lockwood, one of the primary narrators of the novel explains a series of dreams that come to him during the night of which he spends in the Wuthering Heights abode. “Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on the broken pane and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed”(30). Here Lockwood explains his encounter with the ghost of ghost of Catherine Linton, which Lockwood regards to as a creature. It is that this quote and the appearance of Catherine Linton’s ghost that renders a partial explanation for the cruelty that Heathcliff may have inflicted upon all of the characters. If readers can believe in supernatural creatures such as ghosts, the quote can further be appreciated and Heathcliff’s