Morbid Suffering

A research article published in an Indian journal:

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights "A Morbid Novel of Love and Suffering"

by V. Beula Rani

Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL), Vol.12.Issue 3. 2024 (July-Sept) 

Abstract  Emily Brontë, novelist of the Victorian age, is best known for her novel Wuthering Heights as it is a strong but morbid novel of love and suffering. Under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell, she wrote this novel It is the story of the children of two females skillfully arranged told by two narrators Nelly and Lockwood. They narrate the story of three generations of these families spread for forty years of time duration. Almost from the beginning to the end the story presents the intense love of Heathcliff and Catherine. Emily Brontë, found relief from loneliness and sadness of her own lot by creating a new world of imagination. She was grief stricken by her family tragedy. Wuthering Heights is a kaleidoscopic view of Heathcliff at different angles, his love, frustration, hatred, revengeful passion and his reconciliation with life. Catherine found in him the true companion of her soul. Both of them express deep anguish at not being united in life, in spite of their deep love for each other.