Transcending dichotomies: The inversion of heaven and hell in wuthering heights

Abstract

This research paper examines Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights as a critique of patriarchal structures and the traditional concepts of heaven and hell, viewing the novel as a subtle feminist response to the epic tradition, particularly Milton's Paradise Lost. Brontë creates a world of strange co-existence where established religious moral order is dangerously inverted: "hell is heaven, heaven hell," and these states are situational and subject to alteration.