The Sublimation and Repression

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…often portrays the more civilized characters as despicably weak and silly. This method of characterization prevents the novel from flattening out into a simple privileging of culture over nature, or vice versa. The setting is significant to the novel as it represents all the themes and juxtapositions of characters that are dealt with in Wuthering Heights. The elemental atmosphere that is created using the background of the moors enhances the novel's wild and savage nature.