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A 5 page paper which examines how individuality is imagined and defined in Emily
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it relates to national and individual identity. This is often the case with pursuits such as those found in the arts as well. With new growth, as a culture and
as individuals, comes new thoughts in literature and expression. This is a reality that is very prevalent in Emily Brontes "Wuthering Heights" and most especially in Mary Shelleys "Frankenstein." In
the following paper we examine each story separately, examining how the individuality is imagined and defined and also how this is representative of the social and cultural changes taking place
during the time the novels were written. Wuthering Heights The individuality found in Brontes "Wuthering Heights" is a very subtle individuality that is perhaps mostly related to class
and gender. With this particular story we have a woman who obviously has something of a choice in terms of what she wants and where she wants to go. Of
course, she is obviously predestined, by the social culture of the time, to become a wife. There is no opportunity to become an independent woman away from the institution of
marriage, but there is a sort of freedom wherein she could have the opportunity to marry whom she wanted. The power of the social structure, however, is still strong
enough within the character of Catherine to urge her to marry for money and social position, rather than innocent or passionate love. She pushes aside the man who claimed to
love in order to find some stability economically and socially. During Brontes time period, and the time period in which this work was written, women were obviously controlled by the
society in which they lived, and by the social position they were born into. They had no hopes for anything of substance save through marriage. Catherine knew this and when
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