scholarly journals Cathy’s mourning in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Literator ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Albert Myburgh
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Anticipatory Mourning

In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, illness and death cause characters to foresee, fear and react to other characters’ deaths. In this article, I explore the significance of Cathy’s anticipatory mourning of, and response to, the eventual actual deaths of her ailing father, Edgar, and her sickly cousin, Linton. Core 19th-century perspectives and fears relating to illness and death are both evident and contested in the representation of Cathy’s anxiety and suffering. I also investigate how Cathy’s grief is exacerbated by and affects the behaviour of other characters, notably Nelly, Linton, Heathcliff, Zillah and Hareton. The depiction of these characters’ responses to Cathy’s misery enriches their portrayal, implying that Cathy’s fear and grief are integral to both the novel’s plot and its character development.

scholarly journals Virginia Woolf and some aspects of the Russian novel of the 19th century

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Valčić
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Emily Bronte ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Russian Novel ◽  
The 19Th Century

Tema ovog eseja je bazirana na citatu V. Woolf »The Russian Point of View«, tj. na citatu iz njena eseja, koji otvara jedan interesantan uvid u neke tendencije ruskih i engleskih romanopisaca 19. stoljeća. Engleski novelisti, po V. Woolf, čini se, teže objektivnijem prikazivanju društva, dok su ruski veći individualisti. Da se svi engleski pisci ne mogu klasificirati kao objektivni promatrači društva u kojem žive, potvrđuje Emily Bronte sa svojim romanom Wuthering Heights. Isto tako ruski novelisti 19. stoljeća otvaraju »mogućnosti« modernih interpretacija s tematikama moralnih sukoba koje onda pisci 20. stoljeća (engleski) proširuju na određen način, ili, bolje rečeno, sagledavaju s drugih točaka gledišta i stavljaju u određene okvire. Obrađeni su naročito V. Woolf i D. H. Lawrence, te su povučene neke paralele s Tolstojem i Turgenjevim.

scholarly journals Middle Class Women Role in the 19th Century as Reflected in Bronte's Wuthering Heights

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-218
Author(s):  
Desy Nur Indrasari ◽  
Fathu Rahman ◽  
Herawaty Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Descriptive Method

The aim of this research is to describe middle class women role in the 19th century in Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, and induce a deeper understanding of effect each role on two characters in society. This research is a qualitative descriptive method using sociological approach. By using sociology of literature, a literary work is seen as a document of social. The data of this research collected from the descriptions and utterances of the characters and narrator in the novel. The result in this research shows that the role of women from the middle class were represented by the characters of the novel known as Catherine Earnshaw Linton, the main female protagonist and the motherless child and also Catherine (Cathy) Linton, daughter of Catherine Earnshaw Linton.

Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrix Busse
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Narrative Progression

The present study investigates speech, writing, and thought presentation in a corpus of 19th-century narrative fiction including, for instance, the novels Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, and many others. All narratives typically contain a reference to or a quotation of someone’s speech, thoughts, or writing. These reports further a narrative, make it more interesting, natural, and vivid, ask the reader to engage with it, and, from a historical point of view, also reflect cultural understandings of the modes of discourse presentation. To a large extent, the way a reader perceives a story depends upon the ways discourse is presented, and among these, speech, writing, and thought, which reflect a character’s disposition and state of mind. Being at the intersection of linguistic and literary stylistics, this study develops a new corpus-stylistic approach for systematically analyzing the different narrative strategies of historical discourse presentation in key pieces of 19th-century narrative fiction, thus identifying diachronic patterns as well as unique authorial styles, and places them within their cultural-historical context. It shows that the presentation of characters’ minds reflects an ideological as well as an epistemological concern about what cannot be reported, portrayed, or narrated and that discourse presentation fulfills the narratological functions of prospection and encapsulation, marks narrative progression, and shapes readers’ expectations as to suspense or surprise.

scholarly journals Access to Life-Saving Medicines and Intellectual Property Rights: An Ethical Assessment

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
DORIS SCHROEDER ◽  
PETER SINGER
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Percy Bysshe Shelley ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
Emily Bronte ◽  
Ethical Assessment ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Life Saving

Dying before one’s time has been a prominent theme in classic literature and poetry. Catherine Linton’s youthful death in Wuthering Heights leaves behind a bereft Heathcliff and generations of mourning readers. The author herself, Emily Brontë, died young from tuberculosis. John Keats’ Ode on Melancholy captures the transitory beauty of 19th century human lives too often ravished by early death. Keats also died of tuberculosis, aged 25. “The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew, died on the promise of the fruit” is how Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed his grief over Keats’ death. Emily Dickinson wrote So Has a Daisy Vanished, being driven into depression by the early loss of loved ones from typhoid and tuberculosis.

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