Feminist reading of Wuthering Heights

MEG-03: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

In the novel Wuthering Heights, it is evident that the controlling power rests with the patriarch of the home. Whether it is the Earnshaw’s or the Linton’s, social power is in the hands of the head of the family which he imposes on the rest of the family.

Such a one-way exercise of power is accepted as a legal and moral right of the patriarch to discipline the members of the household. Catherine’s wildness, her refusal at being domesticated, is a rebellion against this authoritarian system. She does not rebel against her father or her husband openly, but her spirit refuses to accept the codes of discipline that are to be obeyed without questions. Since Heathcliff is an outsider ...................    

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