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Wuthering Heights - Social Stereotypes
Title: Wuthering Heights - Social Stereotypes
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1204 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Wuthering Heights - Social Stereotypes
What conclusions do you draw about Brontės
attitude to social stereotyping?
Brontės novel seems to contain all the typical, traditional Victorian social values and divisions such as the master of the house with servants below him and so on. Social distinctions were very much more marked and rigidly respected. We first glimpse what Brontė might think of social stereotypes and divisions, right at the start of the book through Lockwood, and later through …showed first 75 words of 1204 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1204 total…Earnshaws who are social outcasts are the stronger set of characters. In my view Brontė criticises socially labelling people, with people like Heathcliff who cannot possibly be placed in a social mould, he is an individual. The stark contrast between the Lintons and the Earnshaws is obvious, they are two ends of the spectrum of society, and perhaps Brontė is saying through the novel that neither works, and that something in-between the two is needed.
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