the wild moors
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The wild moors are the bleak, windswept Yorkshire landscapes that mirror and intensify the turbulent emotions and untamed spirit of characters in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
literary setting ⓘ symbolic landscape ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Wuthering Heights NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Emily Brontë NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyAssociatedWithCharacter |
Catherine Earnshaw
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heathcliff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Thrushcross Grange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReceptionAs | one of the most memorable landscapes in English literature ⓘ |
| describedAs |
bleak
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untamed ⓘ wild ⓘ windswept ⓘ |
| evokes |
sense of danger
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sense of desolation ⓘ sense of wild beauty ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceDate | 1847 ⓘ |
| genreContext |
Gothic fiction
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romantic literature ⓘ |
| hasThemeRelation |
gothic atmosphere
ⓘ
love and destruction ⓘ nature versus civilization ⓘ |
| influences |
behavior of characters in Wuthering Heights
ⓘ
mood of Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Haworth moorland ⓘ |
| intensifies | turbulent emotions of characters in Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| mirrors | turbulent emotions of characters in Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
externalization of characters’ inner states
ⓘ
unifying atmospheric element in Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
| settingFor |
key encounters between Heathcliff and Catherine
ⓘ
scenes of wandering and haunting in Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
| surrounds | Wuthering Heights (house) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
emotional turbulence
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freedom ⓘ isolation ⓘ untamed human passion ⓘ |
| usedAsExampleOf | pathetic fallacy in literary criticism ⓘ |
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