Wuthering Heights And The Good Soldier Comparison

Desires and fears seem so different, yet are at the root of each other. If you say, "I want to be loved," it 's the same thing as saying "I 'm afraid I won 't be loved." Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier manage to show how similar desire and fear truly are. Wuthering Heights is saturated with desire and fear and the two play off of one another in a way that makes them so homogeneous. Similarly, The Good Soldier draws on the desires of many of the characters and in turn the fears, which encapsulate them. Both Bronte and Ford engage with these ideas through the use of character, theme, and in a more generic way narration.
Desire is linked most commonly with the romance novel, which is what The Good Soldier and
His wish to narrate is evident even though his story is a delicate and emotional subject for him. Through his narration he draws up what kind of people he spent his time with. The phrase ‘ just to get the sight out of their heads’ suggests that what he has found out is something that he can no longer bottle up and keep to himself and he wishes to translate these thoughts onto paper and so put his mind at ease. Both Dowell and Nelly have a shared desire to not only narrate but to enlighten the reader as to the disposition of the characters in their story. Wuthering Heights and The Good Soldier also draw on the notion of fear. Wuthering Heights comes under the genre of gothic romance and Bronte uses this gothic theme to capture the fear that runs through the novel. Lockwood’s second visit to Wuthering Heights permits him to seek shelter for the night because of bad weather. The elements foreshadow the terrors that are to come. Lockwood’s nightmare is the first true sign of fear in the novel: ...my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand. The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, "Let me in – let me in!