'Wuthering Heights'

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This paper takes a look at the book 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
The paper focuses primarily on the theme of displacement that is prevalent throughout the book. According to the paper, Bronte uses windows, doors and gates to reinforce a sense of physical estrangement.

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"The problem of seeing something one cannot access, and acting as a voyeur into someone's privacy is how Catherine's troubles began, while Catherine was a girl, wandering with Heathcliff on the moors. Then, Catherine first saw the Lintons through a window with Heathcliff. Heathcliff explains this to Nelly Dean, in an extended monologue in Chapter 6, another example of narrative 'framing' through a narrative that is reported from one person to another: "[we] planted ourselves on a flower-plot under the drawing-room window [to watch the Lintons]," he says to Nelly, describing his adventures with Catherine. Catherine at Heathcliff, at the window, see the quarreling Linton children as unhappy: "Shouldn't they have been happy? We should have thought ourselves in heaven...[in] the middle of the table sat a little dog, shaking its paw and yelping; which, from their mutual accusations, we understood they had nearly pulled in two between them. ...I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange." (Chapter 6) Later, of course, Heathcliff does just that--forcing himself into the Linton's sphere by longing for Linton's wife, by marrying Isabella and finally taking control over the Grange."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1842. Searchable online e-text at the Literature Network. [22 Apr 2006] < http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/wuthering/>

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