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Wuthering Heights-storm and calm (Lord David Cecil)

Date Submitted: 07/28/2004 06:07:29
Category: / Literature / Novels
Length: 3 pages (759 words)
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Lord David Cecil suggests that the theme of Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is a universe of opposing forces-storm and calm. Wuthering Heights, the land of storm, is a sturdy house that is set up high on the windy moors, belonging to the Earnshaw family. The house is highly charged with emotion of hatred, cruelty, violence, and savage love. In comparison, Thrushcross Grange, the land of calm, is settled in the valley and is the …

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…she tries to regain a balance between both worlds, storm and calm, with her interment site: “It was dug on a green slope, in a corner of the kirdyard, where the wall was so low that the heath and bilberry plants have climbed over from the moor;...” (Bronte 165) Catherine has chosen a place where she may be as close to the wild moors of her youth while never leaving the confines of her new world.

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