A paper published in a Romanian student journal:
by Daniela Anisiei, III, EF
Coordinator: PhD Lecturer Cătălina Bălinișteanu-Furdu
Ro-Brit Student Journal, 2024, p4
It is ultimately the author’s choice, to arrange the plot timeline, but this can have dramatic influence over the way the reader perceives the entire story. The order in which the readers finds out the details of the plot, for instance, can make a big difference in terms of their perception of the entire story. It goes without saying that her ingenious narrative technique is what differentiates Emily Brontë from other Victorian novelists, as well as the choice of describing a dysfunctional family, the use of story within a story, or the lack of chronological time – hence its fluidity, the multitude of narrators and the secretive reason behind this choice, the depiction of child abuse, neglect, alcoholism. These dark sides of a family saga were indeed themes successfully depicted by fiction writers, only much later in the XXth century. Victorian paradigms such as the woman like ‘the angel in the house’, or the cultured Thrushcross Grange type of home, “were subtly perceived and fostered by Emily Brontë in her novel, hence the postmodern readings of the symmetry between the two Catherines, or of the metamorphoses undergone by Wuthering Heights from one master to another” (Bălinișteanu-Furdu, 51-52). Authors often are aware of these literary techniques, and some of them put them at work brilliantly, over a hundred years ahead their times, such as Emily Brontë, successfully managed. (...)
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