CHAPRTER 6
Emily Bronte,
Wuthering Heights: abroad
The
focus:
***the idea of
'abroad'
***develop the theme
of home
*** Nineteenth-,
twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses to the novel and reflects on its
continuing cultural significance.
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Wuthering Heights and the world beyond
***Most early British critical responses to Wuthering Heights criticize
its
'coarseness' with praise for its power and originality.
Activity 1
It is not too difficult to see how the contrasting worlds of Wuthering
Heights and Thrushcross Grange might represent a conflict
between northern rural values and
the more urban cultures of the south of England. To Lockwood, the north is strikingly 'other', a
foreign place. To the inhabitants of the north, London and the south are
equally foreign. Heathcliff is foreign, for not
only is his appearance foreign and his origin unknown, but he has
apparently travelled abroad to make his fortune in the time he spends away from
Wuthering Heights.
*****Heathcliff is
the most obvious representative of 'abroad' in the context of the local and
domestic world of the novel.
·
He enters the domestic scene from
another world: from the streets of Liverpool, the imperial trading port where
Mr Earnshaw finds him, and from elsewhere before that.
·
Speaking some 'gibberish' foreign tongue, he is 'a gift of God,
though it's as dark almost as if it came from the
devil,' says Mr Earnshaw; he is a 'gypsy
brat', declares his wife (p. 31). He is,, perhaps, 'a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway',
concludes old Mr Linton (p. 44). Lockwood describes him as 'a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect' (p. 3).
·
Nelly, meanwhile, adds to the list of possible
origins by recommending him to use his otherness to construct a family romance:
"You're fit for a prince in disguise. Who
knows, but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen?' (p. 50).
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ما من عبد مسلم يدعو لأخيه بظهر الغيب إلا قال الملك ولك بمثل.
لم أسجل المادة. ووفر المادة العلمية لي الاخ برنارد شو فلا تنسوه من الدعاء
لم أسجل المادة. ووفر المادة العلمية لي الاخ برنارد شو فلا تنسوه من الدعاء
