Wuthering Heights: Romanticism
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Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontë, can be classified as a
Romantic novel, because it contains many tenets of Romanticism.
Romanticism was the initial literary reaction to changes in society caused
by the industrial revolution: it was an attempt to organize the chaos of
the clash between ....
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.... feeling" (42). Another instance is
when Heathcliff realizes that his one love, Catherine, has fallen in love
with Edgar. He shows love of the past by pointing out to her how little
time she has spent with him compared to the time she spends with Edgar.
After Catherine's death, both Heathcliff and Edgar wish her back even if
they must return to fighting each other for her love. The Romantics had a
love of the past, because it is stable and predictable: all possible
scenarios have already hap ....
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