Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights Themes & Plot Development

EmilyBrontë's Wuthering Heights is a novel of revenge and romantic love. It tells the stories of two families: the Earnshaws who reside at Wuthering Heights, at the edge of the moors, and the genteel and refined Lintons who reside at Thrushcross Grange. When Mr. Earnshaw brings home a gipsy to live in the family, complex feelings of jealousy and rivalry as well as a soulful alliance between Heathcliff and Catherine develop. Believing that he …

…of Wuthering Heights, built in 1500), and, at the same time, how and why the last of the Earnshaws, Hareton, will be leaving the Heights to live, with his cousin-bride, at Thrushcross Grange. One generation has given way to the next: the primitive energies of childhood have given way to the intelligent compromises of adulthood. The history of the Earnshaws and the Lintons begins to seem a history but in essence portrays civilization and society itself.