How Does Emily Bronte Use Imagery In Wuthering Heights

In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, she uses a large amount of imagery in order to bring the setting as well as the characters to life for the audience. She is all over with the types of imagery she uses however she mostly gravitates toward either nature and or the supernatural to bring her story to life. Through associating her characters with the ‘calm’ and the ‘storm’,
Bronte is able to to use imagery to introduce symbols that help the audience better understand the characters.
By associating some of her characters with the ‘calm’ Bronte is able to establish symbolism that characterizes some of her characters as lighter beings in the darker realm that is
Wuthering Heights. Many of the lighter characters in Wuthering Heights do not remain
Catherine is a good example of this as she is full of light and love in the beginning of the novel. Catherine was going to fall in love with the one she wanted and live happily ever after. However this is not how things worked out, the darkness that surrounded her finally caught hold of her and she became part of the storm. She began to only care for herself like so many others that live in Wuthering Heights, and it was not long before she began to feed off those around her. The calm in this story are short lived, for they live in a toxic environment that wears them down until they give. However in the end we did have one come back from the storm, Heathcliff. In the end, after a life of bitterness and selfishness something inside Heathcliff awakens and he becomes cheerful again. It is as if he knew his time was almost up and he used what little positive energy he could to go out of this word a part of the light. It’s in this moment we again see Bronte use these light and cheerful words to describe the person Heathcliff has reverted back into.
By associating the rest of the characters with the ‘storm’ Bronte is able to