comparison between the structures of wuthering heights and...
Comparison between the structures of Wuthering Heights and Great Expectation
Studying ‘structure’ begins by standing back from the details of the novel and taking an overall view. The structure of a text is present in anything the author does to give a shape to our experiences as we read. So, we begin to study structure by thinking about the text in a particular way, concentrating on the question of its shape, and how it is fitted together. Comparing the structure of great masterpieces like Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations becomes all the more difficult when one has read them just for the first time. Victorian age saw the English novel nearly perfected by the hands of novelists like Dickens, Jane Austen, Brontees and others. Throughout the years authors have written many great stories. Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens are two examples of great stories. Both of these stories can be set off and paralleled to the other. The setting, narration, plot, time era, and lover’s relationships are the elements of comparison as they form the overall structure of a novel.
The settings, in which the two stories take place, influence the people and the situations that occur. In Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the setting attracts our attention because, like the plot, it is so fully and precisely created for us. As soon as we begin to consider the setting, we realise that every scene of the story takes place within or between the two houses: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Penistone Craggs are beyond Wuthering Heights: they are the most distant visible feature. The narrative does not visit them, although several of the characters have visited them . The Earnshaw family is not as well off as the Linton’s. This is compared to the small town off the ocean where Pip and Estella live. Pip’s family is rather poor, and Estella lives in a large house with a wealthy aunt. The lives of the lover’s in
Studying ‘structure’ begins by standing back from the details of the novel and taking an overall view. The structure of a text is present in anything the author does to give a shape to our experiences as we read. So, we begin to study structure by thinking about the text in a particular way, concentrating on the question of its shape, and how it is fitted together. Comparing the structure of great masterpieces like Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations becomes all the more difficult when one has read them just for the first time. Victorian age saw the English novel nearly perfected by the hands of novelists like Dickens, Jane Austen, Brontees and others. Throughout the years authors have written many great stories. Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens are two examples of great stories. Both of these stories can be set off and paralleled to the other. The setting, narration, plot, time era, and lover’s relationships are the elements of comparison as they form the overall structure of a novel.
The settings, in which the two stories take place, influence the people and the situations that occur. In Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the setting attracts our attention because, like the plot, it is so fully and precisely created for us. As soon as we begin to consider the setting, we realise that every scene of the story takes place within or between the two houses: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Penistone Craggs are beyond Wuthering Heights: they are the most distant visible feature. The narrative does not visit them, although several of the characters have visited them . The Earnshaw family is not as well off as the Linton’s. This is compared to the small town off the ocean where Pip and Estella live. Pip’s family is rather poor, and Estella lives in a large house with a wealthy aunt. The lives of the lover’s in