How Does Emily Bronte Use Violent Animals In Wuthering Heights

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Indeed, the comparison of a violent dog with Heathcliff is significantly used by Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heights throughout the novel, and we can see how the layers of primitivism in Heathcliff’s character are unveil with the progression of novel, and in the later chapters of novel, we can see how the partial domesticated but violent dog regresses into a wolf, and thus causing destruction as accentuated by Heathcliff’s overt violent behavior.
The very structure of Wuthering Heights is intricate and full of significance. Wuthering Heights is presented as a kind of Chinese box of enclosures within enclosures. The house is like the novel itself, with its complex structure of flashbacks, time shifts, multiple perspectives, and narrators within narrators. However, far we sneaked and progressed toward the central hub of Wuthering Heights, there are still further recesses and darker corners within. In this way, when we look at the beginning chapters of novel, especially Lockwood initial encounters with the inhabitants and entities of
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Lockwood’s progress toward the interior of Wuthering Heights matches his unwitting progress toward the primitive secrets it hides. Just as the “narrow windows” of Wuthering Heights are “deeply set in the wall” 3, so Heathcliff’s “black eyes withdraw . . . suspiciously under their brows” 4, and Lockwood’s entrance into the house is his inspection of its “anatomy”. Here, Emily Bronte makes a clear comparison of Dog with Heathcliff. The nature of