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ARNOLD SHAPIRO. In their attempt to account for the strangeness of Wuthering Heights and to answer some of the difficult questions it poses?for instance, is Heathcliff a hero or villain??critics have generally torn. the novel from its Victorian surroundings and have indicated that one needs a special set of criteria to evaluate it.
Jun 14, 2018 · Scholars concerned with Wuthering Heights are generally agreed that Joseph is a fundamentally unsympathetic character, basing this judgement as they seem to have done chiefly on his cantankerousness and his religious fanaticism.
- Graeme Tytler
- 2018
5 Shapiro argues that Wuthering Heights shows Emily Brontg to have been a 'social reform visionary', since, during the first half of the book she: ••• castigates society for its selfishness and hypocrisy --she shows how Catherine Earnshaw destroys her relationship with Heathcliff by trying to compromise
- WIlliam E. Markham
- 1980
WUTHERING HEIGHTS AS A VICTORIAN NOVEL. BY ARNOLD SHAPIRO. Despite the assertions of many critics, Wnthering Heights does not exist in some special category of its own, but is in the same ethical and moral tradition as the other great Victorian novels. In the first half of the book, Emily Bronte castigates society for.
Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bronte, mainly focuses on the love story between Heathcliff and Catherine. This paper will chiefly analyze the causes of Heathcliff’s revenge which not only … Expand
Scholarly Journal. "Wuthering Heights" as a Victorian Novel. Shapiro, Arnold. Studies in the Novel; Denton, Tex. Vol. 1, Iss. 3, (Fall 1969): 284. This is a limited preview of the full PDF. Try and log in through your library or institution to see if they have access.
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