As the second-generation protagonist of Wuthering Heights, Little Linton’s appearance rekindled conspiracy and love between two families. Under guidance his father, Heathcliff, he was forced to marry Cathy eventually died tragically in Heights. Looking at whole classic, Linton played a crucial role development plot. By using relevant theories including “Gothic” character characteristics, repeat...

Let me start with an example, not from my own research, but from that of J. Hillis Miller, a colleague at UC Irvine. Miller (2002) documents the lives of two middle-class white teenagers, Horace, in 1946, and Jimjim, in 2001. Horace, as a post-World War II teen, is totally wrapped up in the lives of books, from Alice and Wonderland to Wuthering Heights to Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground...

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, as a representative novel in the transformation of British society 19th century, reflects transition English literature from romanticism to realism. “Wind,” an important image, appears many times novel, runs through full text, and has symbolic significance. From howling wind accompanying Heathcliff’s appearance resentment wanton beating Thrushcross Grange durin...