![]() But she seems to have an understanding that every living being is for itself and everyone can only exist in expense of others. Now, I am not saying that Emily Bronte was some sort of a Social Darwinist, “The Butterfly” reaches to the conclusion that the suffering on Earth is worth it because of the existence of Heaven. Every being must be the tireless instrument of the death of others, or itself must cease to live, yet nonetheless we celebrate the day of our birth, and we praise God for having entered such a world.” Nature is an inexplicable problem it exists on a principle of destruction. ![]() These will become in their turn the prey of some tyrant of air or water and man for his amusement or his need will kill their murderers. “All creation is equally mad, behold those flies playing above the brook the swallows and fish diminish their number every minute. I’ve read the two most famous ones, “The Cat” and “The Butterfly”. Of course Charlotte and Anne also valued strength of character a lot, but in Emily’s case this strength of character seems to go hand in hand with physical strength, after all the tadpoles that managed to run away from her did so because of their agility not because of their moral strength. Day Lewis revealingly observed, these values -the strong and the weak, the brave and the cowardly-“are a boy’s values, rather than a girl’s.”” Now I don’t care much for the gender essentialist reading of this anecdote that Mellor and Lewis had, but I agree that Emily seems to have uniquely valued strength. Mellor, the author of the book Romanticism and Gender: “C. All I can gather from them in terms of her interests and thoughts is that she valued nature and man’s existence in nature and that she was interested in love and grief as themes, but both of these things are very evident in Wuthering Heights itself.Īccording to an anecdote of Ellen Nussey, they visited a stream and Emily “played like a young child with the tadpoles in the water, making them swim about, and then fell to moralizing on the strong and the weak, the brave and the cowardly, as she chased them with her hand”. I am not very familiar with her poetry, though I’ve read some of it. She left so little behind her and she is so elusive a figure. Well, it is very hard to know what Emily Bronte thought about anything.
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