Analysis of Fiction Elements in In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte developed characters that revolved around actual experiences from her childhood. Emily was born and raised in Thornton,Yorkshire. Haworth, a suburb of Yorkshire in Northern England, was far away from cultural London. The Haworth parsonage was nearly surrounded by a graveyard. Emily and her siblings spent most of their lives with this gloomy setting.Patrick Bronte, an Irish clergyman, was the father of six children. All of the children were very disciplined due to the enforced and cruel discipline of their father. Maria Bronte died of typhus, leaving her children without a motherly figure. Emily was fiercely independent. She was strongly opposed to formal religion. This could have been from the hardship she endured as a child. Emily felt no love from her aunt Branwell, who took care of them when her mother died. Aunt Branwell was a very religious person, yet had no compassion in her life for her nieces. She felt no bond between them (Barrons7). In Jane Eyre this real life situation was recreated between Jane and her Aunt Reed (11). Emily was left in the care of an aunt who had absolutely no affection for her. These real life situations became themes throughout the books written by both Emily and Charlotte Bronte. Emily became very loyal to her father and found it hard to leave her home environment. She stayed with her ill brother until his death in September 1848, at the early age of 30. At the funeral of her brother, Emily caught a cold and never left the house again. She went into a deep depression. Her sisters couldn’t help her. Emily died at the early age of 30, never knowing about the success Wuthering Heights would experience. Her father, Patrick Bronte, outlived all of his children (The Professor 5). After the tragedy of Emily’s death, her sister Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, which became an immediate success.So devastated over t...
