CHAPTER 5
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights: at home
Introduction:
***** The theme of 'home and abroad' in Wuthering Heights by
Emily Bronte.
With its domestic settings and provincial location, Wuthering Heights is most immediately connected with 'home'.
The first reviews of
Bronte's work:
This chapter examines the two contrasting homes presented in the
novel, their inhabitants and external landscapes.
[Home]: Wuthering Heights is a story of undying
elemental passion, of raw untamed human nature set in wild moorland. (CH5)
[Abroad]: its remote rural setting as quite to exclude
the rest of the world. (CH6)
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Home at Wuthering Heights
·
Wuthering Heights begins with accounts by the
southerner Lockwood of his first experiences of his new home in the north of
England.
·
His initial stance as a man appreciative of isolated
and unrefined society is soon diminished by the rough reception accorded him.
·
Lockwood's
increasing perplexity and horror were shared by some of the novel's first
reviewers who encountered these
scenes:
[the incidents are too coarse and disagreeable to be attractive, the very
best being improbable,
with a moral taint about them, and the villainy not leading to results sufficient to justify the elaborate pains
in depicting it.]
**** It is often assumed that Wuthering
Heights was an underappreciated and misunderstood work at the time of its
publication.
·
There was certainly a wide range of responses,
some of which were positive: (contemporary critical reception)
-
The novel viewed as too 'extreme' and
marred by detailed and protracted depictions of violence, but praise of the
novel's originality and imaginative power often ran alongside criticism of the writer's evident inexperience
·
The first reviewers were working within a context where
it was common to speak about the healthfulness or otherwise of reading
material.
***John Ruskin discussed reading in terms of a wholesome or unwholesome
diet.
-
The consumption of print within the home
was linked explicitly to the consumption of food, and unwholesome reading
considered as likely to have deleterious effects on its inhabitants as a
surfeit of sweetmeats.
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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
