Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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Women 's Literature Take Home Exam

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Question Number One

In Victorian B Crossings , Barry Qualls claims that Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff 's participation and exposure to the domestic economies in Thrushcross Grange has led both characters to their death in the end of the novel . Quall argues that the exposure and participation of both characters

in the different social environments in Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights determined the manner in which both characters reacted to the various gender and class issues which they experienced in their lives . He states

The education of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff into comprehending and for Catherine ambivalently incorporating , what Thrushcross Grange represents illuminates the tensions in Wuthering Heights and exposes its radical questioning of the gendered dimensions of domestic realism . It is not simply that the domestic economies of Thrushcross Grange differ from those of Wuthering Heights .It is that the exposure of Catherine and Heathcliff to the world of Grange introduces the gender and class issues that will kill both of them by novels end (Qualls , 2006 ,

. 53

Within this context , the death of both Catherine and Heathcliff might be understood as their inability to fully incorporate themselves within the gender and class requirements that were required in the domestic setting that they choose to occupy at the later end...