Entre Emily Brontë e Wuthering Heights: a escrita feminina como libertação dos entraves sociais

Abstract

This paper has as objective to approach the novel "Wuthering Heights"(1847), by Emily Brontë, according the historic context it is inserted, especially the woman's position in the Victorian Era. For this purpose, we will look into the female characters of the novel, understanding their construction from the lived experiences by the author. We will discuss how Emily Brontë turns a timeless author and breaks with the puritans standards and values, mainly because her writing is intense and her female characters show unconventional attitudes, but even so no leave to be victims of the social convention, in an age that the woman is not given opportunities and her in turn lived in the shadow of the male figure. This way, the objective of this paper is understand the writing of Emily Brontë from her experiences and how Wuthering Heights turns an outsourcing of everything that her and the others women lived being immersed in the patriarcharlism. For this, we will seek to understand the oppressions suffered by Victorian women. We will analyze how dark this time was for those who often had to live in anonymity, especially writer woman. To this paper, we used Callaghan (2018), Iwami (2016); Virginia Woolf (2014), (2014) e (2013); Daise Dias, (2012), (2011) e (2011); Klinger (2006); Wengelin (2005); Zolin (2005); Neto (2014); Foucault (2001); e Bataille (1989); By this theorists we will go into the life and work of Emily Brontë to analyze the social relations that permeate theirselves.