The Outcome of Change. Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontë, can be classified as a Romantic novel, because it contains many tenets of Romanticism. Romanticism was the initial literary reaction to changes in society caused by the industrial revolution: it was an attempt to organize the chaos of the clash between the agrarian and the industrial ways of life. Romanticism was developing in a time in which all of society's rules, limits, and restraints on how each person should …

…with petty manners sharpens.         Despite its being written in the Victorian era, Wuthering Heights is a very Romantic work. It contains many of the tenets of Romanticism and the development of the Byronic hero. The novel also teaches the reader to at least respect the Romantic ideals, if not to love them like Emily Brontë does. In the final analysis, this book is about persons trying to find peace through rebellion in a chaotic world.