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Wuthering Heights is the only novel written by the Victorian writer, Emily Bronte besides her poems. It is one of the most passionate and heartfelt novels. It is also, considered highly original and deeply tragic. This novel is about the relation between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan boy brought to Wuthering Heights, and his tyrannical revenge excited on everybody for the rage and humiliation he suffers throughout his life. The novel is based on a group of flashbacks which are organized chronologically and told by a number of narrators. Each participates in the part which conveys the theme most efficiently. So, the type of narration used throughout the novel is first person point of view. However, the writer does not†¦show more content†¦He gives an accurate description of the event, affected greatly with his feelings and emotions for Catherine and hatred against the Lintons. We feel the cruelty and injustice of his situation through his narration. It attracts sympathy from the readers who identify with his unfortunate situation. Also, his bitter tone of speech accounts for his reaction later on in the novel. The second time Heathcliff takes over the narration is near his end. His speech seems very disordered and irrational. It sounds like hallucinations coming from a deranged man. He describes his strange approaching change with great earnest claiming the occurrence of weird incidents and expo sing his distorted beliefs about ghosts and faith. His disturbed state of mind is manifested through claiming the presence of the troubled roaming ghost of Catherine. This gives more power to the novel and draws our sympathy for this tyrannical character. Isabella, Heathcliffs hated wife, joins the in narration only twice, first when describing her miserable marriage to Heathcliff in a letter to Nelly, second when narrating the incidents relating to her elopement from the Heights. Her language and manner of narration reveals her simple and innocent self. It shows how unaware the young woman is of the evil and deceit in the world. Her language is different from others in her civility and politeness