Wuthering Heights

Charlotte and the biographer tell us that Emily is independent, open-minded, innocent, resolute, passionate and introverted by nature. She is quite masculine and loves the wilderness where she grew up. She always lives in isolation. Apart from brotherhood, she likes to be friends with nature most. From her poems and actions throughout her life, we can see the manifestation of her cosmology and outlook on life. Some people regard her as a mystic for this reason. In fact, the relationship between man and nature has always been an important proposition in the history of human civilization. Emily is just following in the footsteps of philosophers, hermits, scientists, and artists of all ages. Through life and creation, she has personally explored the relationship between man and nature. Because Emily's life experience was short, she neither received a complete systematic education nor had any actual experience in love and marriage. People were puzzled that she could write such a profound and unique love song as "Wuthering Heights". Regarding this issue, some people have long used the "genius theory" explanations, and after more than a hundred years of research and textual research, biographers and critics have come up with more convincing evidence. Although Emily and her sisters grew up in the cold and monotonous Yorkshire, their father, Patrick Brontë, was from Northern Ireland, and their mother, Maria Branwell, was from Wales. The ancestors of this pair of parents were both Celts with an impulsive and romantic temperament, and both of them had talent for writing poems and articles: Patrick had always had literary ambitions and had published a collection of poems at his own expense; the love letter Maria wrote to Patrick before she got married was also of great literary talent. Inheriting the genetic genes of her parents and being cultivated by the spirit of the wilderness, Emily's artistic genius was undoubtedly not without a source; and her family's parsonage on the edge of the wilderness, although cold and shabby on the outside, was warm and pleasant on the inside because of the close relationship of several talented children. They encouraged each other and discussed each other since childhood, and enjoyed reading and writing. On the one hand, this greatly dilutes the suffering of material scarcity; at the same time, it also cultivates and exercises their writing skills. Emily's writing began with poetry. During the sixteen or seventeen years before she started writing "Wuthering Heights", she successively wrote the study poem "The Legend of Gondal" and short poems. Today, only nearly 200 poems are available. Regardless of their own artistic value, these words are at least a useful preparation for creating the immortal work "Wuthering Heights". In other words, her writing of "Wuthering Heights" was a continuation of her poetry writing. Her poems are sincere, powerful, rough, deep and noble, which is also the style of "Wuthering Heights".