The Role of Religion inWuthering Heights

Tytler, Graeme

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“…In her article '"The Awful Event" in Wuthering Heights', Inman (2008) endeavours to remedy the omission of a discussion of the centrality of death ('the Awful Event') regarding Brontë's novel in the work of critics such as Ingrid Geerken (2004), Lakshmi Krishnan (2007), Graeme Tytler (2007) 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.…”

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Cathy’s mourning in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Myburgh

2017

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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.

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Cathy’s mourning in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Myburgh

2017

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“…As Graeme Tytler observes of Wuthering Heights, 'the aim to establish the theological significance or intention of the novel' has advanced the opinion that, 'transcendental or other-worldly as it may be in spirit, Emily's masterpiece is at heart a more or less anti-Christian book'. 25 Tytler more plainly states that 'religion in Wuthering Heights is, for the most part, depicted in drab colours'. 26 However, despite all of this, Tytler presents a rather compelling study of religion in the novel, eventually arriving at the opinion that 'it is a testimony to its remarkable unity that we are also made aware of the extent to which the Judaeo-Christian tradition has influenced the language and mentality, even the behaviour, of almost all the characters'.…”

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The Mystery of the Moors: Purgatory and the Absence/Presence of Evil inWuthering Heights

Dodworth¹

2012

Brontë Studies

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The moors surrounding Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange and Gimmerton are mysterious not only owing to their description in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, but also owing to their direct influence on the characters in the novel. Specific instances of character exit and return from the world outside these moors create significant changes in these characters, off-scene. The nature of these instances of character change, and also the nature of what that mysterious realm outside the moors might actually be is explored in this essay in terms of good and evil, particularly in relation to heaven, hell and purgatory.

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Cathy’s Subversive ‘Black Art’ in Emily Brontë’sWuthering Heights

Myburgh

2018

English Academy Review

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In this article, I argue that, in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), the 'witch' motif is used to explore the novel's depiction of nineteenth-century anxieties surrounding threats to patriarchy and of expectations around women's domesticity and role in society. I show how Cathy Heathcliff (née Linton), who is called a 'witch' by various men in the novel, appropriates the role of witch, drawing on vestiges of medieval superstition to resist the patriarchal order, to gain authority, and to assert her position at the Heights when she is dispossessed of her patrimony and physically and emotionally abused by Heathcliff, and is verbally attacked by his servant Joseph. I posit that the narrative's references to the use of 'witchcraft' in relation to Cathy are integral to its engagement with debates concerning the role of women in male-controlled social contexts, the subversion of male domination, and the empowerment of women.

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The Role of Religion inWuthering Heights

Cited by 7 publications

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Cathy’s mourning in Emily Brontë’s <i>Wuthering Heights</i>

Cathy’s mourning in Emily Brontë’s <i>Wuthering Heights</i>

The Mystery of the Moors: Purgatory and the Absence/Presence of Evil inWuthering Heights

Cathy’s Subversive ‘Black Art’ in Emily Brontë’sWuthering Heights

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