Romantic Literature 1-6-12:

·      After the confrontation between Heathcliff and Edgar, Catherine becomes ill and spirals out of control. She is her usual dramatic self, picturing that she is at Wuthering Heights and crying over her lack of visitors. It is unclear whether Catherine is actually sick or if it is mental illness or if she is just trying to get attention, but it is clear that she is letting her emotions distract her from rationality. One of the characteristics of Romantic literature is emotions winning over rationality, which occurs a lot throughout Wuthering Heights, proving that it is a romantic novel as well as a gothic book.

·      Gothic literature and romanticism both have supernatural as a characteristic. There are many examples of supernatural events, the most recent being Catherine in chapter 12 when she claimed that she was sick. She was raving about her childhood and claimed that she could see Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights outside her window. Nelly says that this was impossible, but there is no proof other than Catherine’s tendency to exaggerate and create drama.