Wuthering Heights
In the 19th Century English society, supernaturalism was a great factor that affected individuals to be more conscious and disturbed by strange tales and horrific imaginations of ghosts and nature. Monsters and ghosts have haunted the literary imagination, but a particular interest in horror and the Gothic form dates back to the early 19th century. The society of supernaturalism escaped from witchcrafts and evils of the 17th and 18th century, and released supernaturalism to the unexplored imagination; horror that lies within fear of the unknown. A novel written during this literature era, "Wuthering Heights," by Emily Brontë during the Victorian Age, presents a number of supernatural events in naturalistic terms, thrilling readers with strange beliefs filled with mystery and terror.
In the nineteenth century, the emphasis on reason, which had not provided stability, meaning, and satisfaction in the 18th Century, shifted to a more dominating, romantic appeal to man's emotions. Gothic, supernatural, fantastical, and eerie themes began to be very popular; many writers, including Brontë, Dickens, and Shelly, began to write such themes in their novels. The use of ghosts, spirits, and even dreams all created suspense and a type of belief that the individuals of the society all seem to accept as true. In the beginning of the novel, the first supernatural event that Brontë had written of was right after Mr. Lockwood was caught in a snowstorm and, with the help of Zillah, had stayed over in an unused room at the Thrushcross Grange. During the night, he begins to dream. In his second dream, Lockwood tries to stop the trees knocking on the breaking window. Unexpectedly, his hands were grasped by icy fingers and a weeping voice of the spirit of Catherine Linton; she begs to enter.
Knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch; instead of which my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold...
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