Wuthering Heights Literature Essay

Repetition is a technique that Bronte employs in Wuthering Heights. She uses repletion to convey the idea that nothing ever ends in the world of the novel. Time seems to run in cycles and the horrors of the past repeat themselves in the present an example of this is Heathcliff being forbidden an education and then Hareton being forbidden an education “he was never taught to read or write”. The way that the names of the characters are recycled, so that the names of the characters from the younger generation seem to be descrambling’s of the names of their parents, leads the reader to consider that there are plot elements that also repeat themselves. An example of this is Heathcliff’s degradation of Hareton and how it is a repetition of Hindley’s degradation of Heathcliff. In the passages provided the repetition of a single idea is used. The idea that Heathcliff is a usurper is a constant throughout the novel, even when he is dead and gone he is still remembered as a usurper and when he dies Hareton is then restored as “head of the old family” and the cycle has the possibility of starting again, and whether that be a good thing or a bad thing is undetermined.
Wuthering Heights full of imagery. The Devil and hell, the weather and dogs are the images most constantly gathered from the novel. In Wuthering Heights, Bronte uses nature as a way of representing moods and people. She uses the weather to show that the characters of the novel are governed by their passions and not by the ideals of civility. When something pivotal happens in the book the weather reflects that moment and the emotions behind it, “on every rainy night since his death” shows that the weather and the moors are mourning the death of Heathcliff and they are the only ones who will. The frequent storms and wind that sweeps through Wuthering Heights symbolizes how the characters are at the mercy of forces that they are unable to control. Bronte uses the weather as a metaphor for nature, which she