The Romantic and Victorian in a state of Violent Clashes or Confrontation The Female Gothic and the Monstruos (original) (raw)

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Wuthering Heights expanded the Female Gothic within the New Gothic genre. Thus from the Gothic genre, the female gothic genre emerges. The main contention of my studies of Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, is the violent confrontation or clash between two extremely powerful forces: Catherine dies because she cannot choose between the Romantic forces clashing against the Victorian forces. She feels pulled by the Romantic characteristics of Wuthering House such as the satanic, violent and passionate Heathcliff, the forces of nature, the rocks beneath that never change, the medieval manor in decadence, the irrational love for a gypsy or a stranger from another land, the presence of the supernatural, the union with Heathcliff in nature and Heathcliff as part of nature. In the case of the Lintons, she is mesmerized by the Victorian home, in a period in which the industrial revolution worked on comfort of houses and the activities. In a time where the aristocracy enjoyed nothing but pleasure such as playing the piano, social gatherings, the development of the concept of the gentleman, the art of conversation and being the lady of the land. Thus, Catherine gets pulled by these two forces at work and no matter her choice and her types of love for Linton and Heathcliff, her choice leads her to death. Each house is located as the loci after death. Wuthering Heights is an analogy of Heaven while Thrushcross Grange is located below, becoming a reference to a paradise lost or the final hell. Only through death, and in the shape of a ghost, she finds the way to go back to her heaven, Wuthering Heights.