Wuthering+Heights-+Nature

Emphasis Wuthering Heights has to nature

- Evidence of nature throughout the novel. VOLUME I 1. The Moors throughout the novel play a significant role in nature, as I believe this can determine the personality of the character. As Wuthering Heights the estate is prone to barren fields, and scarce trees. “…Descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its stations is exposed in stormy weather.” Descriptions such as “…Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold…On that bleak hill top the earth was hard with black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb.” This shows that this type of environment is for people who are strong and independent as this is a central place in establishing Catherine and Heathcliff’s relationship unlike Edgar, Isabella or Linton who show little interest in this barren ‘gothic’ like landscape. 2. In __Chapter IX__ Catherine finds herself having to decide between her love for Heathcliff and her love for Edgar. __Description of Cathy's feelings towards Linton and Heathcliff-__ "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightening, or frost from fire." " My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath-a source of little visible delight, but necessary." Thus when Heathcliff over hears Catherine speaking to Nelly of such things he runs away this is described in the novel using ‘dark and cold’ connotations towards nature, which gives the reader a negative effect and sets the mood. “ It was a very dark evening for summer: the clouds appeared inclined to thunder…there was a violent wind aswell as thunder. 3. __Chapter X__, Catherine is trying to warn Isabella of Heathcliff’s personality by drawing to a metaphor exploring the nature of the book’s descriptive language. For example Cathy describes Heathcliff as "An arid wilderness of furze and whinstone…He’s not a rough diamond-a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he’s a fierce pitiless, wolfish man.” This quote reveals the contrast through the use of the beauties of nature which is then compared to old and beastly connotations.

4. __Chapter XII__ Catherine is left in a mental frenzy due to the fight between Heathcliff and Edgar. Catherine drives herself to insanity by refusing to eat for several days, thus she begins to become delusional as having not left her room in days she insists on opening the windows. “ Oh, I’m burning! I wish I was out of doors-I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardly, and free…” Although there is no imagery of nature present in this quote I this alludes the presence of nature as when Catherine was younger and in a better mental state she was free to experience the outside world, hence I think this quote contains a bit of the sublime. “ Why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills…” 5. Chapter XIII Catherine’s bodily health is back in shape, the moors are beginning to clear up and spring is arriving. “These are the earliest flowers at the Heights...They remind me of soft thaw winds, and warm sunshine, and nearly melted snow…” I think this is a representation of the shift in energy and mood in Catherine’s personality as her mental state is now positive as the ‘gothic’ elements turn to ‘bright’ elements.

VOLUME II 6. Creating the atmosphere and automatically there is a shift in tone, emotion and atmosphere. “ That Friday made the last of our fine days, for a month. In the evening, the weather broke; the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain, first, and then sleet, and snow.” 