Emily Brontes Life and Its Mirror Image in Wuthering...

Emily Brontes Life and Its Mirror Image in Wuthering Heights As we look to the past for clues to some authors and their works we may find clues to why they may have written some of these great works of art in their own life stories. Life and questions about it may have some effect on what some wordsmiths put to paper. If careful consideration is given to the past life of Emily Bronte the novel Wuthering Heights may be seen as somewhat of a mirror of her life. Much of her life is shrouded in mystery, but there is evidence that can and should be looked at as similar to the lives of several of the characters with this great novel. According to Juliet Barker, Emily Jane Bronte was born July 30, 1818 (Barker 1). In†¦show more content†¦Neufeldt writes further that, she needed the noiseless, secluded, unrestricted, and un-artificial existence and close contact with nature that Haworth could offer (2). This description of Emily may sound somewhat like the personality the original Cathy, wild, reclusive, and freethinking. Could our author be demonstrating a thoughtful picture of how she viewed her own life? Emilys sister, Charlotte Bronte, wrote of her in our text Wuthering Heights that Emily had spent most of her life in, absolute retirement of a village parsonage, amongst the hills bordering Yorkshire and Lancashire (Poems, WH 268). Charlottes description of the hills of Emilys youth may again point to a life of seclusion amongst a wild and seemingly untamed environment. Even the description of Emilys homeland brings to mind descriptions she used in her novel. Emily did have one brother named Branwell. Her brother, according to Neufeldt, had a pathetic addiction to alcohol and opium (2). These apparent weaknesses could be compared to weakness the reader of Wuthering Heights may see in Hindley. Some may consider Hindleys cruelties toward Heathcliff and his later downfall due to gambling debts as signs of comparison to Emilys brother. 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