This thesis describes how Wuthering Heights is a social novel, which analyses the cause and effect of class, gender and communal conflict in a late eighteenth-century rural community. Socio...Show moreThis thesis describes how Wuthering Heights is a social novel, which analyses the cause and effect of class, gender and communal conflict in a late eighteenth-century rural community. Socio-political developments, like the rise of the middle classes, shape and form the community and the characters in the novel These forces give rise to ideologies, and create conflict within the Earnshaw and Linton families. This leads to a cycle of conflict, with inflicted suffering and revenge. The root of conflict in the novel is Mutual incomprehension, caused by ideological differences, prejudice, and characters' upbringing in closed cultures.Show less
