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Wuthering Heights -- Themes - Coggle Diagram
Wuthering Heights -- Themes
Civilisation vs Nature
The residents of Wuthering Heights are representatives of nature, while Thrushcross Grange is synonymous with civilisation
Cathy returns to Wuthering Heights in Volume I Chapter VII, after five weeks of staying at Thrushcross Grange
Appears to have become civilised while staying at Thrushcross Grange -- creates a divide between her and Heathcliff
Cathy becomes torn between nature and civilisation -- constrained within civilisation, nature is the ultimate form of liberation
Returns wearing a smart dress, manners instilled into her -- symbols of civilisation, superiority
Education vs Wildness
Sickness and disease
The destructive force of desire
Brutality, cruelty and violence
Separation and exile
Volume I Chapter XIII, Isabella writes to Nelly asking her to visit
Similar to Catherine, Isabella feels imprisoned inside the chaotic Wuthering Heights
Nelly and young Cathy literally entrapped in Wuthering Heights -- Volume II Chapter XVII
At the hands of Heathcliff
In Volume I Chapter XII, Catherine is desperate for the window to be open so she can glimpse Wuthering Heights -- feels trapped inside Thrushcross Grange
Feels that her spirit will never be at rest until she can be with Heathcliff
Symbiotic connection, societal strictures force them apart
Outsiders and otherness
Revenge
Transgression
Imprisonment or entrapment
The power of nature and the sublime
Madness and insanity
Social class
In Volume I Chapter VI, Hindley declares that Heathcliff will no longer be allowed and education, and should become a common labourer
Parallels of this can be drawn to Heathcliff's treatment towards Hareton -- deprived of education, rights to the ownership of Wuthering Heights
A result of Heathcliff's insatiable desire to wreak revenge on Hindley, transcending the generations
Power vs Powerlessness