Romantic Tenet TEXT- Quote Technique and Paradigm Related quotes Context/ Ways

Wuthering effect from scholars of thinking.

Heights
Individualism ‘He is ….of Lockwood Philosophical Emerson “The The pressure for
one.” fallible romantics stressed the change was a
narrator, satire human potential for consequence of
of negative social progress and the new middle
individualism. spiritual growth. class (the
“He is a dark- -Descriptive bourgeoisie) and
skinned gipsy in language used their demands
aspect, in dress to reflect… fore power based
and manners a on their belief
gentleman: that that they proved
is, as much a ’ He was saying that their merit.
gentleman as man bears the whole The romantics
many a country universe within concentrated
squire: rather himself and comes their attack on
slovenly, closest to the mystery the heartlessness
perhaps, yet not of the world by of bourgeois
looking amiss stepping inside liberalism as
with his himself.” well as the
negligence, nature of
because he has industrial
an erect and society.
handsome
figure; and - Concern for the
rather morose.” common man
evolved not only
from the

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 “The tone in democratic
which the words ideologies of the
were said Age of Revolution
revealed a but also from a
genuine bad renewed interest
nature. I no in folk culture.
longer felt
inclined to call
Heathcliff a
capital fellow.”
Exploration of “I was only going Religious Religion “Imagination is the Periods of deep
the Imagination to say that allusion- Depicts living power and introspection
heaven did not to the audience prime agent of all highlight the
seem to be my that it is through human perception.” importance of
home; and I her dreams that “Imagination is a feeling and
broke my heart Catherine tries shaping or modifying imaginative
with weeping to to make sense of power.” Coleridge reflection, during
come back to her reality. the Romanticism
earth;” era.
This contrasted
distinctly with the
“swarming with Alliteration, Religion traditional
ghosts and emotive imagery, arguments for the
goblins” provides and supremacy of
imaginative reason-
getaway to the Enlightenment.
supernatural
elements of the
story.

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Nature “defended with Imagery- Morse Peckman” It Industrial
large jutting Perhaps Bronte Religion/ is easy to treat Revolution saw a
stones” is suggesting philosophy humanity and great many
that within nature as separate inventions come
nature; an all- elements but in into place during
powerful, all- reality the human this time
natural, presence is a part of Industrial society
untampered the natural brought new
element, world…Romanticism problems;
humanity is embodies an soulless
more inclined to approving attitude individualism,
the truth. towards the natural economic
world.” egoism,
utilitarianism,
materialism
hence for the
Romantics
(rebels of their
time), the
natural began to
be favoured over
the man-made.

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 “They were both Bronte’s Thomas Hampson:
very attentive to symbolic use of “For the romantic,
her comfort, nature when nature was a
certainly. It was discussing constant companion
not the thorn Catherine and and teacher – both
bending to the Linton’s benign and
honeysuckles, relationship. Use tyrannical. She
but the of rhetorical became the stage in
honeysuckles question to which the human
embracing the highlight the drama was played,
thorn… and who reasons for the context in which
can be ill- Catherine’s man came to
natured and changing understand his place
bad-tempered attitude. in the universe, the
when they transforming agent
encounter that harmonized the
neither individual soul with
opposition nor what the
indifference?” Transcendentalists
would call the Over-
Soul. Throughout all
of Romantic
Indeed highly emotive literature, music and
Catherine’s language art, Nature is a
desire to return continues to dynamic presence, a
to the Heights enforce Bronte’s character who
sees her return point and depicts speaks in a language
to ‘basic to the reader of symbols at once
instincts’ how nature has mysterious and

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 through her the ability to anthropomorphic,
imagination as invoke strong who engages man in
she awakes feelings in an a dialogue with the
“sobbing for joy” individual. life force itself.”
into “The middle
of the heath on
the top of
Wuthering
Heights”.

Wordsworth:
Edgar “is like the Catherine again
foliage in the uses nature as a “because in that
woods” way to describe condition the passions
Heathcliff her relationship of men are
“resembles the with Edgar incorporated with the
eternal rocks juxtaposed to beautiful and
beneath” that with permanent forms of
Heathcliff. nature”

“ I were High modality, Rousseau:

outdoors! I wish emotive Nature never
I were a girl language used by deceives us; it is we
again, half Bronte to who deceive
savage and highlight the link ourselves.
hardy and free” between
emotions and
nature.

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A shift from the “ I am Heathcliff- Repetition and Philosophy Intuition and The
objective to the He’s always, high modality is Instinct enlightenment
subjective, from always on my used to depict predominate over era which
emphasis on mind…as my the intense what A. Kettle proceeded the
rationalism and own being” connection describes as ‘the Romantic period,
empiricism to a Catherine feels cold words of logic’ fostered the
celebration of to Heathcliff, Passion rather than belief that
diversity and suggesting they reason drives the individuality was
uniqueness. are the one plot. shaped by
- e.g. passion, ‘being’. education,
emotion filled. industriousness,
productivity and
reason.

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 “He might as Metaphor used Philosophy William K. Wimsatt:
well plant an oak to depicting “the primitive, the
in a flowerpot, Edgar as naive, the directly
and expect it to Catherine’s cage. passionate, the natural
thrive.” Her denied need spoken word.”
for passion is the
reason for her
destruction.
Wordsworth’s
definition of all good
poetry being ‘ the
spontaneous overflow
of powerful feelings’
Simple sharp Philosophy
“Terror made sentence depicts
me cruel” “SOMEBODIES”
fear when they
are confronted
with the ghost of
Catherine.

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 “She has Bronte continues Her characters
disturbed me, to harness the explore the contrast
night and day, power of to the
through eighteen imagination to Enlightenment
years- present how school of though;
incessantly- powerful love intoxicated with
remorsesly” can be. powerfully
passionate love for
one another both
logic and reason are
lost.
Unconventional “ I have strong Bronte offers the Religion  . ‘Who,’ Emerson
faith in ghosts” readers the asked, ‘can set
unconventional, boundaries to the
inverting the possibilities of
stereotyped man.” “the
reaction. romantics stressed
the human
potential for
social progress
and spiritual
growth.

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 Scientific
Heathcliff tells TECHNIQUE?
ellen how
Catherine has
not decomposed
as he “expected
such a
transformation
on raising the
lid, but I’m
better pleased
that it should not
commence till I
share it.”

However! “ but Repetition Philosophy

both their minds
tending to the
same point- one
loving and
desiring to
esteem, and the
other loving and
desiring to be
esteemed.”

The Englightenment era which proceeded the reactionary

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The social and political upheaval of revolution and war had challenged the Enlightenment frame of mind promoting new principles of
self-expression, emotion and imagination.

During the romantic period the individual rights were demanded and asserted and as a result literature tended to abandon conventional
techniques and subject matter in preference for my passionate expression of emotions. COLERDIGE POEM

Heathcliff and Catherines rebellious attitdudes define them as non-conformist an obvious

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