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A 3 page paper which examines how Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights can be read as a novel concerning civilized society and a wild anarchist society. No additional sources cited.
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the clash of cultures, ideals, and identity. While it is normally seen as a tragic love story, or a story of dysfunctional personalities, it is also a very powerful story
that pits the civilized world against the world of anarchists ideals. The following paper examines this perspective in Brontes novel. Wuthering Heights: Civilization and Anarchy The novel is
clearly one wherein the social boundaries are relatively clear. A woman has little power and is generally at the mercy of a good marriage in order to find her worth
and her position in society. It is a world of men, but also a world of wealthy and powerful men, men with social standing and a long history perhaps, of
heritage. This basic foundation clearly sets the stage for a conventional social world that is pitted against a world that is darker, perhaps deeper, and clearly more dangerous. This other
world is clearly embodied in the character of Heathcliff. Heathcliff is an orphan and from the beginning one knows that he has no power, no economic wealth, and no social
position of worth. He is the stable boy, the servant of the household in many ways. He is clearly not of the same class as Catherine, the daughter of the
man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer to that of an anarchist than that of
his social class. This can be inferred by the narration of the arrival of Heathcliff, whom Mr. Earnshaw had found and brought home: "Mr. Earnshaw told me to wash it,
and give it clean things, and let it sleep with the children" (Bronte ChapterIV). A man who felt himself powerful and worthy of note in society, a man who followed
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