Summary of Wuthering Heights

" Her powerful reason would have deduced new spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old; and her strong, imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty; never have given way but with life." M. Heger on Emily Bronte.1 Throughout her life time, Emily Bronte was a self-imposed recluse from society, living in the confines of the hellish and quite savage moors of Yorkshire. It is in this isolation that she found …

…a limited and short vessel. Only in the novel, could she try and develop her art form to fully encompass the fierce beauty of emotions and human passion. Still, the novel's great quality is just that the author make her emotions leave the boundaries of her lines to encompass everything they come in contact with. Thus, knowledge and development can never be grasped as a finished object and "what thou art may never be destroyed"4.