The change of the weather in Bronte’s book reveals a lot about the emotional situation during the scenes. Usually, after a character has acted fiercely, or has displayed intense emotion, or is gloomy in general, the weather darkens and the wind rises. Wuthering Heights is always melancholic because wuthering is a “significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather” (Bronte 4). The people who live in Wuthering Heights are not happy, which further explains the constant windy weather. The weather can also describe the unrest each of the people living at Wuthering Height have. There is no peace in their hearts and that is why the weather there is so chaotic at times.
The weather is used to emphasize a character’s emotions by altering the setting. After Catherine finds out that Heathcliff is missing, she leaves the house, looking for him despite the weather conditions. There was a “violent wind, as well as thunder, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof, and knocked down a portion of the east chimney-stack, sending a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen-fire” (Bronte 84-85). The weather was so chaotic that Joseph “swung on to his knees, beseeching the Lord to remember the patriarchs Noah and Lot, and, as in former times, spare the righteous” (Bronte 85). The weather in a way appears to be crying along with Catherine, which expresses her determination to find him no matter how deadly the storm was.
The weather is seen to be describing how each of the characters feel. In a way, the weather is the action to their feelings. When the characters are happy, the atmosphere is lighter and more peaceful. When the characters experience intensely negative emotions, their feelings are portrayed through the restlessness of the wind and chaos of the storm.
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I like your insight on the significance of the weather! Very cool stuff!
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Wuthering Heights is often used as an example to show how authors manipulate weather to determine the emotional landscape of their characters. Also, I beg you to consider this “split tree” quote when it appears again later in the novel.
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I did not notice how often Bronte includes detail about the weather in her writing, but I love how you dove into the associations that come with different weather. I wonder why Bronte focuses on this aspect of her setting so heavily. Does it have greater meaning that showing the emotions of the characters? Great post!
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