Unique+Literary+Device

One of the most unique elements of // Wuthering Heights // is its confusing and jarring style of narration. At the beginning, Brontë leads readers to assume that Lockwood, the tenant of Thrushcross Grange will be the narrator, only to prove them wrong rather quickly by writing a good 150 pages from the perspective of Nelly, Wuthering Heights’ housekeeper. However, the perspective Brontë uses makes the accounts of the events within // Wuthering Heights // all the more personal and realistic, which are two aspects of the novel that are celebrated. In addition, the unpredictability of the narrator makes the entire novel all the more mysterious: for example, if Nelly is talking about her time // at // Wuthering Heights, what is she doing living at Thrushcross Grange? What event took place to make her leave? Also, by putting the housekeeper who knows the novel’s entire story in charge of narrating // Wuthering Heights //, Brontë is able to work in an effective amount of foreshadowing. A sense of impending dread is fairly prevalent throughout // Wuthering Heights //. Here is an example in which Nelly’s personal account of events make // Wuthering Heights //’ narrative all the more powerful, in this case, emotionally: “// Much against my inclination, I was persuaded to leave Wuthering Heights and accompany her here. Little Hareton was nearly five years old, and I had just begun to teach him his letters… I told the master he got rid of all decent people only to rn to ruin a little faster; I kissed Hareton goodbye; and, since then, he has been a stranger, and it’s very queer to think it, but I’ve no doubt, he has completely forgotten all about Ellen Dean and that he was even more than all the world to her, and she to him!” // P 89
 * Unique Literary Device – Narrator/Point of View **