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Top Withens (a ruined farmhouse) could have possibly been the influence of “Wuthering Heights”
Born Society “this farmhouse has been associated with Wuthering Heights. The buildings, the situation may have born in her mind when she wrote moorland setting of the Heights.”
set in bleak moor side of Yorkshire
-geography of novel is considered as a character itself
-> desolate landscape difficult to negotiate
(harsh weather)
-acts as a metaphor for uncertain moral landscape which the characters inhabit
Wuthering Heights believed to be based on a house near the school near Halifax where Emily taught
journey from one house another could be considered as dangerous and perilous
represent two social status
bleakly isolated seeing difficulty of mobility reveals central themes of conflict, exclusion and identity
(descriptions of setting are in direct contrast with the Romantic view of the open landscape as sublime and uplifting)
