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Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange

3 Pages 688 Words November 2014

What does Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange represent of the two realities of the novel? A pretty good description of the Wuthering Heights manor is that it is a demonic and dark. Where the Height was located is in the English Moor, the winters there lasted three times as much as summer and the land cross it is all just winter. As for the Thrushcross Grange, it is described more as summer. Wuthering Heights is described by Bronte as a "misanthropist's Heaven. 
It's always locked and gated up and the people that live in the manor are as unattractive as the Heights. Wuthering Heights shelters Heathcliff, the so called protagonist of the story, and his foster siblings, Catherine and Hindley. These three children, met in unusual circumstances, have to survive the terrain of their environment. The reality they lived in explains plenty of why they act as they are. The Heights demonstrates a place that is dictated by man's cruelty, the children cannot appreciate the utopia that is Thrushcross Grange. When Heathcliff was a boy and returns from the Grange he describes his adventure, "...We laughed outright at the petted things; we did despise them! ... or find us by ourselves, seeking entertainment in yelling, and sobbing, and rolling on the ground divided by the whole room? I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange...  (Bronte, Ch. 2)
Wuthering Heights is a dark manor that expects that man will do their worst, and to the people that live there it is the only reality they know. Wuthering Heights comes from a dark place that expects the worst in men and this reality is all too true for their inhabitants. When Catherine married Edgar Linton and moves to the Grange, she is at first satisfied to be pampered and spoiled. It was so great for her. She was spoiled beyond compare, but when she saw Heathcliff, she became homesick and was all too eager to go back to the place she onc...

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