Essay Comparing Good Country People And Wuthering Heights

In both “Good Country People” and Wuthering Heights the setting plays a vital role by providing a backdrop which helps reveal the strife of the main characters. In “Good Country People,” the setting represents what Hulga dislikes; it is the same good, religious country of her mother which she cannot stand. It helps further Hulga’s feeling that her mother does not accept her by placing Hugla in a state in which she constantly deals with her mother. Furthermore, the setting helps lead to her downfall, as she assumes that she is better than all the other people there because of her reason and PhD. This allows her to be taken advantage of by Pointer, so much so that she imagines seducing him when the exact opposite is happening. In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is in a similar scenario where the land itself helps produce conflict both physically and emotionally. In the novel,

In my opinion, this was motivated in part by his bitterness over the fact that his lack of a title kept him from marrying Catharine, the woman he loved. The moors themselves also play a significant role in Wuthering Heights. In the danger of the moors is where Catherine and Heathcliff’s wild, passionate romance is formed. When Catherine is justifying marrying Edgar, she uses nature as her justification, stating that “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods…My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath a source of little visible delight, but necessary." Despite her love her Heathcliff, the setting of the book, specifically its time period and Heathcliff’s lack of a house at the location keeps him from marrying Catherine. Just like in “Good Country People,” the setting in Wuthering Heights achieves its significance by helping generate the primary conflict of the main characters. However, there is a difference in the role of the setting in “Good Country People” and Wuthering