The document summarizes the motifs and symbols in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights. It discusses three key motifs: Doubles, Repetition, and the Conflict between Nature and Culture. It also analyzes two important symbols: the Moors and Ghosts. The motifs and symbols are closely related to the major themes of the novel and help develop Brontë's exploration of ideas about society and human relationships.

1. Group - 03
NAME OF THE GROUP
MEMBERS
ID – NAME
74 – Md. Aktaruzzaman Akash
75 – Most. Airine Akter Rani
76 – Lam Yea Siddiqe
78 - Foyej Bappy Chowdhury
80 – Md. Belal Hossain
82 – Most. Sumaiya Akter

2. Topic
Motifs & Symbols
of
Wuthering Heights

3.  Motifs are recurring structures,contrasts, or literary
devices that can help to develop and inform the
major themes of the text.
The motifs of the Wuthering Heights are
 Doubles
 Repetition
 The Conflict between Nature and Culture

4. Doubles
 Brontë organizes her novel by arranging its elements—
characters, places, and themes—into pairs.
 Catherine and Heathcliff are closely matched in many
ways, and see themselves as identical.
 Catherine’s character is divided into two warring sides:
the side that wants Edgar and the side that wants
Heathcliff.
 The novel has not one but two distinctly different
narrators, Nelly and Mr. Lockwood

5.  Catherine and young Catherine are both remarkably similar
and strikingly different.
 Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, represent
opposing worlds and values.

6. Airine Akter Rani
ID-75

7. Repetition
Repetition is another motifs that Brontë employs in
organizing Wuthering Heights.
 Time seems to run in cycles, and the horrors of the
past repeat themselves in the present it seems that
nothing never ends in the world.
 The names of the characters are recycled and plot
elements also repeat themselves.

8.  For instance,
 Heathcliff’s degradation of Hareton repeats Hindley’s
degradation of Heathcliff.
 The young Catherine’s mockery of Joseph’s earnest
evangelical zealousness repeats her mother’s.
 Heathcliff’s second try at opening Catherine’s grave
repeats his first.

9. Belal Hossain
ID - 80

10. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë constantly plays nature and
culture against each other.
 The conflict between nature and culture represented the
relationship between two residence : Wuthering Heights
and Thrushcross Grange as well as it’s inhabitants.
 Wuthering Heights represents the wilderness of nature,
passion and life where Thrushcross Grange stands for a
refined way of life, civility and culture.
The Conflict between Nature and Culture

11.  Earnshaw family comes with nature
 Heathcliff : Inhuman & Dangerous
 Catherine : Beautiful & Wild
 Linton family is symbol of culture
 Edgar linton : In contrast to Heathcliff Edgar is gently bred
a refined man and patient husband on example of
constancy and tenderness

12. Lam Yea Siddiqe
ID-76

13. Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors
used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
The symbols of Wuthering Heights are
 Moors
 Ghost
Symbols

14. Moors
 Through the description of setting Moors is
symbolically represented in the surroundings of
Wuthering Heights.
 Moors here used as a infertile land which couldn’t be
cultivated.
 The Moors represent danger.
 Here Moors symbolizes wild nature.
 The moorland transfers symbolic associations onto the
love affair.

15. Foyej Bappy Chowdhury
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16. Ghost
 Ghosts are symbolize the manifestation of the past
within the present, and the way memory stays with
people.
 Ghosts appear throughout Wuthering Heights, as
Gothic fiction and Brontë always presents them in
such a way that whether they really exist remains
ambiguous.

17.  Certain ghosts—such as Catherine’s spirit when
it appears to Lockwood in Chapter III—may be
explained as nightmares.
 The villagers’ alleged sightings of Heathcliff’s
ghost in Chapter XXXIV could be dismissed as
unverified superstition.

18. Most. Sumaiya Akter
ID - 82

19. Conclusion
As the symbol and motifs are always used to
signify idea or emotion, this are closely related to
the theme. This particular motifs and symbols
which has shown in to the novel, represents
Brontë’s own ideas and beliefs towards society.