Wuthering Heights Revisited: Characters’Roles and Meanings

Emily Brontë and Catherine Earnshaw, the heroine of Wuthering Heights, are not identical, but the readers have a persistent desire to believe that the author of the novel is a spiritual as Catherine. Though modern literary criticism cautions against using the literature to understand the writer‟s life, in this paper, I will revisit the kind of criticism which is now regarded as outmoded, but which nevertheless continues to reflect the kind of relation many readers have to the novel, to re-consider its characters‟ roles and meanings. This will illuminate the link between Emily Brontë and her inner life described in Wuthering Heights