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Whuthering Height is a novel that have been written by Emily Brontë in the 19th century. This is why we can associate it to the movement of the romanticism. Like any romantic novel, Whuthering Heights is characterized by a desire of escape into the dream or by the confrontation between feelings and reason. Among these themes, the romanticism highlights the wild world.
Our presentation will focus on two differents subjects that are in opposition : the wild world and the civilization in this film
We will introduce you to this topic into two parts.
I] Colors' language
Colors express warmth and coldness's, distance and nearness's feelings the best.
In Whutering height, we can see that Catherine is shown with a graceful white dress whereas Heathcliff is shown in rags and tatters
When Catherine is with Heathcliff, she changes, her clothes get darker.
One day, Catherine was bitten and she has to recover, when she came back she recovers as much on the physical’s viewpoint as the moral’s she was wearing a white dress.
At night, he ran away in the rain as if nature were helping him against the civilization, this bears a relation with the Romanticism movement which Whutering Height belongs. The Nature asserts the hero’s soul, night and rain symbolize sorrow and tears.
When Heathcliff came back to Whutering Height, he's shown as an aristocrat, but his skin is still dark, the clothes he was wearing is a mix of green (wildness) and gray (a color that tends to the white but that cannot reaches.) about Catherine, she’s still white till the end as if wildness and civilization can't be associated and it’s predestined in life.
Between the two of them, there's a border which can't be cross: civilization and wildness
Wilderness and Civilization can’t be linked in life but it can in death: Heathcliff's wearing white clothes and Catherine's wearing black clothes, they got together on the moors.
We notice that even though the Civilization has separated both of them, it’s the Wilderness that has united them.
II] Symbol of the horse
We can see in this film Whutering Height that the link between the civilization and the wild world is highlight by a symbol: the horse.
A horse is like a domestic when it trots (it draws the carriage) but It can also represent the sensation of liberty or strength when it gallops.
Throughout the film, we have seen a lot of landscape where the heroes of the past and the heroes of the future riding horse.
The first time that we can see a horse was when Catherine was riding a black horse with Heathcliff. The horse was galloping and it proved that the two children were still savage.
The second time, Catherine had already get married with an aristocrat whose name was Edgar. She was beside Isabelle and the two ladies were riding white horse tottering around the court. It shows that Catherine was in the civilization.
The third time, Heathcliff was coming back to Weathering Height. His horse is black but it tottered. So we can conclude that it shows the union between the civilization and the wild state because as we have seen it in the first part, Heathcliff become an aristocrat keeping his wild way to think.
The fourth time and the last, we can see the heroes of the future, Catherine and Hareton, two aristocrats who are riding two white horses that they are galloping. It is an alliance between the wild and the civilization and maybe we can say: it proves that the world of today has changed. We can also say that after the departure of H, The two children separate themselves for ever.
*Throughout our presentation we have seen that wilderness is in contrast with the civilized world. Catherin and Heathcliff loved each others but this love destroyed themselves and their family. However, the future shows that prejudices can disappear, it's how these two person completely different fell in love with each other.
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