Wuthering Heights Themes

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Wuthering Heights Video Even though the novel is a great (if twisted) romance, Brontë doesn't follow the strict guidelines of the genre: the reve...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Talk about dysfunctional. Does anyone really like each other in this book? Instead of bringing comfort and peace, families in Wuthering Heights are a s...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) It's tough to really call Wuthering Heights a romance, since the two lovers spend so much time making each other miserable. Still, we know Catherine an...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) From beginning to end, there's no avoiding the supernatural in Wuthering Heights. There are probably more ghosts than there are humans in this neck of...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Just about everyone in Wuthering Heights suffers physical and emotional trauma, and many of them even die from it. Heathcliff avoids physical illness,...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Even though Wuthering Heights' two families live out in the middle of nowhere, they still abide by the totally claustrophobic constraints of class. The...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider by his own adoptive family, which fuels his desire for revenge. Wuthering Heights never makes it clear wher...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Considering that Catherine bails on Heathcliff by marrying Edgar Linton, Heathcliff goes pretty easy on her. Heathcliff does disappear for three years,...