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Recalling "No Coward Soul is mine", one of Emily's best poems, ''Wuthering Heights'' has been considered a mystical novel, a religious novel or a visionary novel. All the characters are ambivalent: they have good and bad qualities and they hate and love with equal intensity. Some characters are also depicted as brutal and violent, which is different from many romantic novels of the day. Heathcliff, the main character, is depicted as a wild, villainous, fierce anti-hero, Catherine as passionate heroine. | Recalling "No Coward Soul is mine", one of Emily's best poems, ''Wuthering Heights'' has been considered a mystical novel, a religious novel or a visionary novel. All the characters are ambivalent: they have good and bad qualities and they hate and love with equal intensity. Some characters are also depicted as brutal and violent, which is different from many romantic novels of the day. Heathcliff, the main character, is depicted as a wild, villainous, fierce anti-hero, Catherine as passionate heroine. | ||
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* James, Janet. ''Wuthering Heights Notes''. Hesslington: U of York P, 1993. | |||
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Novel by Emily Bronte first published in 1847.
Recalling "No Coward Soul is mine", one of Emily's best poems, Wuthering Heights has been considered a mystical novel, a religious novel or a visionary novel. All the characters are ambivalent: they have good and bad qualities and they hate and love with equal intensity. Some characters are also depicted as brutal and violent, which is different from many romantic novels of the day. Heathcliff, the main character, is depicted as a wild, villainous, fierce anti-hero, Catherine as passionate heroine.
Source
- James, Janet. Wuthering Heights Notes. Hesslington: U of York P, 1993.