Pamela GonzalezApril 10, 2014Dr. Yoder English 210A: The Novel Wuthering Heights Symbols are in which someone chooses to be viewed and the frame in which someone's portrait is placed can communicate to us about that person's personality and goals, how they like to be seen and /or the period in which she lived. Wuthering Heights is a quarantined building in the hills of the West Riding of Yorkshire. "Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's residence 'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which his station is exposed in stormy weather" (Emily Bronte p. 2). From the beginning of the novel, the description of the house seemed very dark, cloudy and strange. The house was located where thunder, snow and rain could strike. The setting (including nature) has an influence on the reader because it gives an understanding of the characters and a complete understanding. of the novel. Wuthering Heights is a symbol of the distinctive restlessness that is the dominant force in Bronte's novel, a force that will damage, twist, and hurt anyone who encounters it. The actual meaning of the word “wuthering” is a wind. blowing hard with a roaring sound. This image serves as a metaphor that people, money, emotions, love, etc. will be in danger if they don't stand their ground. Above all, this novel is obviously about love, a different and strange love. The emotions and love in this novel turn out to be very violent, brutal and merciless, just like the screaming. The moorland landscape generated a habitation that seemed removed from society and the rest of the world. It made a perfect set-up for the strange, strange, funny, eerie, and sometimes ghostly happenings that were revealed in the middle of a paper......a source of inconspicuous, but necessary, pleasure” (Bronte 60). Her love for Linton was not as deep and strong as the love she had for Heathcliff. Love, nature and setting all have a middle ground, well a dark and strange middle. Triangular love is frequently described through nature metaphors. Although the title of the novel is the most important element that gives the characters their traits, Emily Bronte included two places to make the novel more interesting. The two families were separated by the cold, murky, dark, desolate moors of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The two houses have different morals and values. Wuthering Heights represents wilderness. On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, sophistication, establishment and education. It didn't take long for Wuthering Heights to take over Thrushcross Grange..