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Essay Archive - Wuthering Heights: Romanticism
Wuthering Heights: Romanticism
Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontė, can be classified as a
Romantic novel, because it contains many tenets of Romanticism.
Romanticism was the initial literary reaction to changes in society caused
by the industrial revolution: it was an attempt to organize the chaos of
the clash between the agrarian and the industrial ways of life.
Romanticism was developing in a time in which all of society's rules,
limits, and restraints on how each person should act where being questioned,
tried, and twisted. Wuthering Heights is a Romantic novel which uses a
tale of hopeless love to d....
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