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David Story Ms. Gardner Honors English 0 Period 1 December, 2013 A Collection of Informational Articles Regarding Wuthering Heights Burt, Daniel S. "Wuthering Heights." Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. Daniel Burt's article on Wuthering Heights offers deeper insight into the complexity of the styles that Emily Bront's used in her writing which connected to writings of earlier origin such as literature of the Greeks and Shakespeare. It also offers a very clear and sincere analysis of the books work while complimenting its exquisite use of conflict that creates the intense atmosphere of the novel. Burt's critique of Wuthering Heights seems to delve deeper into the main theme of personal conflicts that occur throughout the novel. She goes further to elaborate on what other repercussions the social conflict in the novel creates; this helps expand ones thought and leads it from the simple idea of social conflict to broader ideas such as the issues of the condition of living itself. In conclusion Burt's provides how the humans social character is like a web, which assists us in understanding the notions of passion, love, and hate that form the threads of the web Emily Bront's weaved in Wuthering Heights.
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Meynell, Alice. "On Wuthering Heights." Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 1 Dec. 2013. Alice Meynell's critique empathizes how elegantly, tastefully, and colorfully images Bronte paints the setting of Wuthering Heights while in the same instance never presenting it physically but verbally. Meynell's article also sheds light on how the use of the paranormal occurrences with Heathcliff and Catherine's childhood ghost clarifies to the reader Heathcliff's view and love for the former Catherine. Meynell's article is clear and precise on the structure of the novel such as setting and tone, however it does not cover the main issues in the novel such as the family vendetta and the relationships between characters. Although Meynell's article lacks the main issues, it makes up by providing the reader with insight into the connections presenting in the beginning of the book then the end of the novel, such as the connection of Heathcliff's body being found at the end of novel by the window where he viewed Catharine's ghost at the beginning. O'Sullivan, Keith. "Bront, Emily Jane." Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 1 Dec. 2013 Keith O'Sullivan's biography displays Bronte as only being a famous novelist because of Wuthering Heights, a poet by trade, who wrote under the name Ellis Bell. Keith also elaborates on Emily's childhood life that later fueled her writings, collaborating with her younger sister Anne from a young age by writing about imaginary islands from the south pacific that provided setting for her later literary endeavors.
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O'Sullivan's article is useful in providing the reader with context to Bront's writing experience and styles by providing her childhood and family background in writing. It is also useful because it adds that most of Emily Bront's works are gothic styled and contain motifs such as graveyards, death, and nature which are all ever present features in Wuthering Heights. Polhemus, Robert M. "Love and Death in Wuthering Heights." Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 1 Dec. 2013. Robert Polhemus's article on the issues of love and death offers a different take on traditional thought of bliss and peace found through death. He continues on to elaborate on this topic by presenting how each character characterized heaven and death, each of which had different views on the subject. Finally, Polhemus relates the powers of death and love between Catherine and Heathcliff by elaborating on how Catherine stated that death or deity could not keep her and Heathcliff from loving each other. Polhemus's article is helpful and informative as it contrasts the many ideas of presented by death such as religion, the afterlife, and deities and is able to make them relevant to Wuthering Heights and how its characters view death. The article uses love to describe how Catherine and Heathcliff cannot be separated even by death, however the article focuses mainly on the connection of death and the characters as well as the connection between the deaths in the novels family's and the deaths in Bronte's family.
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Smith, Sheila. "Supernaturalism and Balladry in Wuthering Heights." Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 1 Dec. 2013. Sheila Smith's article peers deep into the novel and conjures the pagan origins of the balladry in Wuthering Heights whilst comparing it to its more orthodox Christian roots which collide into one to create the story's conflicts of passionate love versus socially accepted love. Smith continues on to provide how the first readers viewed this passion as well as the supernatural manifestations that occur within the novel, some opposing it and others embracing these topics. Smith's article on the issues of balladry and the supernatural provide the reader with the two sides to the general thought of passion in Wuthering Heights; The uncontrollable lust fueled love of Heathcliff and Catherine in comparison to the more socially acceptable, prim and proper marriage of Catherine and Linton. It develops to story into a moral battle rather than a class battle which helps establish even greater emotional strength behind the rage of Heathcliff, behind the passion of Catherine, and behind the love the of Linton. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. "Bront, Emily." Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 1 Dec. 2013. Mary Snodgrass provides a view into the early light of Emily Bronte's and family, much of who were scholar and writers; They being major influences in her becoming a writer. The author also provides us with personal information of Bronte's life such as her previous job as a teacher which then was affected by her contracting
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tuberculosis. Finally, Snodgrass provides the reader with initial success as a writer which however was quickly followed by her unforeseen death. Snodgrass's biography of Emily Bronte's contains useful information on the author such as her family how they were influential to her development as a writer, however her childhood and teenage years are summarized providing vague insight onto these critical years. Snodgrass focuses biography on Bronte's emotional connections and relationship with her family such as with her sisters who in turn are also writers rather than a more informative biography on Bronte's personal life.

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