Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange - Contrast
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Never have two more opposing places existed than Thrusscross Grange and Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights is a dwelling characterized by fiery emotions, primal passions, bitter vengeance, and blatant evil. Thrushcross Grange is a peaceful, beautiful abode which epitomizes all that is good and lovely. Emily Bronte includes these two places in the Romantic novel, Wuthering Heights, to create a contrast which furthers the overall theme of good vs. evil. Wuthering Heights is a house set high upon a hill where is exposed to extreme weather conditions. Storms often come "rattling over the heights in full fury." - Storms which have...
However, the reader is also able to deduct that Thrushcross Grange represents good and peace due to the light imagery used to portray it, its setting, and to the pleasant people that live there.
However, the reader is also able to deduct that Thrushcross Grange represents good and peace due to the light imagery used to portray it, its setting, and to the pleasant people that live there.
These contrasts offer much to the meaning of the novel. Throughout the work, the two houses are set against each other. This symbolizes the overall theme of good vs. evil. In the end, after a period when the evil of the Heights seems to have taken over, reconstruction occurs, and the Grange becomes the dominant house, proving the age-old adage, that good always conquers evil.
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