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Wuthering Heights: An Amoral Novel?

Abstract There has been a tendency among Brontë scholars to look upon Wuthering Heights as an essentially amoral book. The chief reason for this view seems to be the assumption that Catherine and Heathcliff are in some sense transcendental creatures, and hence not to be judged by the moral values of ordinary human society. Yet a careful reading of the entire narrative suggests that the author is, as it were, intent on putting all her main characters to the most searching of moral tests, whereby in one way or another they each reveal their respective attitudes to various facets of truth. This enables the reader not only the better to discern the moral essence of each character, but to distinguish between the characters with considerable objectivity. And whereas it is rightly agreed that Wuthering Heights should not be read as some kind of moral tract, it would still be true to say that Emily is none the less mindful of the primacy of basic moral principles.