Gothic elements in Wuthering Heights?

Question

What are some gothic elements in Wuthering Heights?

Answer 1

Wuthering Heights depicts in true Gothic fashion, boundaries being trespassed, specifically love crossing the boundary between life and death and Heathcliff's transgression of social class and family ties.

Emily Bronte has incorporated the Gothic trappings of imprisonment and escape, flight, the persecuted heroine, the heroine wooed by a dangerous and a good suitor, ghosts, necrophilia, a mysterious foundling, and revenge.

The weather-buffeted Wuthering Heights is the traditional castle, and Catherine resembles Ann Radcliffe's heroines in her appreciation of nature. Like the conventional Gothic hero-villain, Heathcliff is a mysterious figure who destroys the beautiful woman he pursues and who usurps inheritances, and with typical Gothic excess he batters his head against a tree. There is the hint of necrophilia in Heathcliff's viewings of Catherine's corpse and his plans to be buried next to her and a hint of incest in their being raised as brother and sister or, as a few critics have suggested, in Heathcliff's being Catherine's illegitimate half-brother.

Answer 2

well dont forget about the supernatural elements. Heathcliff was described as the devil

Answer 3

The whole book is gothic. Gothic is doom and gloom. That whole book is doom and gloom. Everything from the way they act to the way they speak and their houses are gothic.