ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘Wuthering Heights’ is-
A
a novel by Charlotte Bronte
B
a novel by Anne Bronte
C
a novel by Thomas Hardy
D
a novel by Emily Bronte
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff .

Detailed explanation-2: -It was published in 1847 under her pseudonym “Ellis Bell".

Detailed explanation-3: -Wuthering Heights", Emily Brontë’s only novel, is one of the pinnacles of 19th-century English literature. It’s the story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls in love with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking revenge on her family.

Detailed explanation-4: -Summary of Wuthering Heights focuses on a person Heathcliff, who is a mysterious gypsy-like person. Heathcliff rises in the family who had adopted him and then he was reduced to the status of a servant there. Further, he ran away from the young woman whom he loved very much and decided to marry another.

Detailed explanation-5: -The title of Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights refers to the name of a haunted farmhouse in an exposed moorland location. Brontë explains that the provincial adjective ‘wuthering’ is ‘descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather’.

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