Wuthering Heights #10: Symbolism

Symbolism is when the author uses an object to express a deeper meaning in the story. With novels, come symbols. Symbolism is a key part of a classic novel. The readers look for symbols in everything they read. When I read the classic novel Wuthering Heights, there were just a couple of symbols that I noticed.

The first symbol that stood out to me were the moors. The moors as I discussed in an earlier blog, they are a type of landscape that are always described in the novel. The two love birds Heathcliff and Catherine always went to the moors together and played when they were little. So in a way these moors that they played in were symbolic because it was a part of their loving relationship.

The second symbol that stood out to me were the ghosts. There seemed to be a lot of ghosts showing up in this novel. One ghost appears early in the novel, the ghost of Catherine that Lockwood sees. Another ghost appears near the end of the novel, the ghost of Heathcliff that all of the villagers see. These ghosts may be fake or real, but either way they symbolize how the people that died still linger in everyone's memories.