The landscape of Wuthering Heights is very different from the ‘carefully-fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers’ that Charlotte Brontë criticised Jane Austen’s fiction for depicting. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights and not the least and best loved was – liberty.’ ‘Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. ‘My sister Emily loved the moors,’ Charlotte wrote.
The Brontës’ writings are imbued with the spirit of the moors around Haworth. Her descriptions, then, of natural scenery, are what they should be, and all they should be…Wuthering Heights was hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools.’ She described her sister as ‘a nursling of the moors’. ‘My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.’Ĭharlotte Brontë wrote about her sister: ‘Her native hills were far more to her than a spectacle they were what she lived in, and by, as much as the wild birds, their tenants, or as the heather, their produce.
Misty and cold landscapes are used to highlight his unamiable nature and sullen mood. Heathcliff is described through the elements of nature surrounding him. Even the name of the novel is a description of weather and landscape. Of all the Brontë novels, ‘Wuthering Heights’ most insistently features the landscape as both a setting and an influence on the characters’ behaviour. In 1847, their ‘literary mirabilis’, Charlotte published ‘Jane Eyre’, Anne published ‘Agnes Grey’ and Emily published ‘Wuthering Heights’ but within eight years all three had died, outlived by their father, who remained minister there for 41 years. The Brontë sisters lived most of their lives in Haworth, a small industrial town on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors.
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