Wurthering Heights Post #12: Author's Tone

An author has the authority to write with tone, an attitude. In the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses few tones in the story. At first, Bronte seems to be dwelling in the story of lost love and wasted passion between Catherine and Heathcliff. It is rather dark and bitter in the beginning of the story. The author seems cynical. She is only focusing on the negative and bad things happening in the story. I did not like the first third of the novel because of the dark and edgy writing styles. It made me pity the doomed lovers and made me feel gloomy.

Towards the end of the novel, Bronte's tone seemed to become slighty more positive. She seemed to change view on the subject. She no longer seemed cynical and gloomy to the lost love and passion shared by the two lovers. Bronte's tone was sanguine! She looked at Heathcliff's soon death as a reunion between the lost hearts. The lost part was almost like a fresh start for Catherine and Heathcliff as they venture into the after life together. Also, the new married couple Catherine Linton and Hareton can share their love the way Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw never could.

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004. Print.