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.

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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
untamed
wild
windswept
evokes sense of danger
sense of desolation
sense of wild beauty
firstAppearanceDate 1847
genreContext Gothic fiction
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
freedom
isolation
untamed human passion
usedAsExampleOf pathetic fallacy in literary criticism

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Cathy Earnshaw symbolicAssociation the wild moors