Wuthering Heights #8

Reflecting history accurately can be difficult. However, I feel the author Emily Bronte did quite well reflecting history in her novel Wuthering Heights. Back in the mid 1700's to 1800's (the time period this novel was written in), people's social class was very important to one another. An excellent example to show how the history was reflected was when Catherine decided to marry Edgar Linton. The only reason she married him was to be socially advanced, and also to be wealthy. Being in a high social class was extremely important to people back then.

As for any types of discrimination of that time period, people were quite racist against women. Women never had close to as many rights as men did. They could never buy or own property. If land was to be inherited it, the son would inherit it. Just like the Earnshaw manor. After Mr. Earnshaw died, Hindley inherited the property. And when Hindley died, Heathcliff inherited the property even though he was not a part of the family. Catherine could not inherit the property no matter what. This novel is great at showing what times were like back in that time period. The econmy was extremely different and so were the rights that people had.