Wuthering Heights Critics

Gilbert and Gubar

The etching of several titles for C highlights the lack of identity that is common to all women under patriarchy

Pike

“Isabella’s narrative offers a highly unorthodox portrait of the domestic abuse of a young bride from the gentry class”

Miller

The novel resists rational explanation, e.g., structure, language, use of narrators

Freudian

HC’s and C’s obsessive and divided mentalities

Wion

Loss being an essential part of the human condition

Watson

HC is divided between love and revenge

Haslam

Bronte manipulates the traditional readers expectation of family- love, care, duty, and responsibility

Schorer

“Moral story about the futility of grand passion”