Wuthering Heights Vs Romeo And Juliet

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Writing task, English literature / Explore the ways in which the difficulties of love are presented in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering heights’. The difficulties of love saturate the pages of Emily Bronte’s deep, dark, gothic novel “Wuthering heights” and Shakespeare’s bright and bold “Romeo and Juliet”. These two tales are undoubtedly, two of the greatest love stories ever to be written and yet the protagonists love causes unprecedented degrees of suffering and trauma. Throughout this essay, I am going to analyse and explore the many similarities and differences that exist between both stories. The time scales detailing the difficulties of love in these two pieces of literature are completely miles apart. In Romeo and Juliet, the actions take place within five days where as the events that occurred within Wuthering heights happen over a period of thirty years. In Romeo and Juliet, events come about with such speed, mistakes are made. Things seem out of their control. Romeo fails to receive the message informing him that Juliet is not dead; this leads to his wild and insane intention to take his own life. Juliet does not wake in time to save Romeo and as a result, takes her own life. Tragic events are foreshadowed in Romeo and Juliet, for example, from the prologue the audience is made aware that the ‘star crossed lovers’ take their life’s’. This quote suggests that it was the fate of both lovers to end in such tragedy. The term ‘star crossed lovers’ is a phrase describing a pair of lovers, whose relationship is said to be doomed from the start. On the other hand, in Wuthering heights, where the difficulties of love occur over such a long period, the happenings are understood and presented through the use of flashbacks, along with the use of narrators, who are actors within the film. The aim of this was to make the story more

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