Class conflicts in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (original) (raw)
This paper proposes to study Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë (1814-1848) as a class-conscious novel that highlights signs of class conflicts current in nineteenth-century England. To start with, the paper concentrates on the views concerning the structure of history and the superstructure of culture and society to manifest how these ideas are instrumental to the making of Wuthering Heights. In this regard, our study intends to look into the socio-cultural scenario of the Victorian England that had had a great sway on the insightful faculty of Emily Brontë. Simultaneously, it underscores the cross-cultural crises bolstered by financial disparity that manipulate different relationships, and contribute to the towering tensions between the two houses of the novel-Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The two houses represent two diametrically opposed classes of the Victorian society, and have an influence on almost all of the characters in the novel. This paper, thus, examines the issues of class conflicts mirrored in the novel's social milieu and specific forms dramatized in different layers of relationships in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë had published Wuthering Heights (1847) one year before Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friederich Engels (1820-1895) declared the historical 'Manifesto of the Communist Party' (1848). Our study of the early Victorian period reveals that the proximity of time between the
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