Wuthering Heights ? 3

I am still reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I love the way she writes because it is so sophisticated. Using this writing, Emily Bronte expresses different themes throughout the novel. The first theme that stays the same through the whole novel is a love that never changes. When Heathcliff first arrived, Catherine treated him like a piece of garbage. For example, "and Cathy, when she learned the master had lost her whip attending on the stranger, showed her humour by grinning and spitting at the stupid little thing." (Bronte 37) But the longer Heathcliff was there, the more and more she fell in love with him. They became inseparable. "Miss Cathy and he were now very thick." (Bronte 38) Another theme that is stated is social class. The social classes of the eighteenth and nineteenth century allowed people to stay separated from other classes. People were born into a class and stayed there. Catherine's family was lower than the rich class, which was the most common class. Edgar was born into a rich family so his class is higher than Catherine's. No one knows what kind of family Heathcliff was born into so he was treated differently than the others. Nelly Dean was born into a poor family which made her become a servant. These different classes kept the characters in Wuthering Heights separated. Emily Bronte has a strong understanding of human nature. She knows that no one can have exactly what they want especially when it comes to love.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: Random House, 1943. Print.