Wuthering Heights begins in the year 1801. Lockwood narrates until Nelly Dean picks it up where he leaves off, but starts telling about the past. You can tell that the story was written during the 1800’s because of the way the characters speak. They used long, descriptive words and spoke in an all around different way than we do today. I do not know one person who talks like that today. The way people acted back then is also very different from how they act today. The way parents treated their kids when they were wrong or acted badly was pretty harsh. They would beat them or just smack them instead of lecturing them for it, as if that would teach anything. And concerning social issues, men and women were very different. Men were the more important people and women were considered weak in comparison. They did not seem to have a purpose besides bearing the children and watching over the kids. There are many differences between the behavior and social issues of then and now.
I believe that the symbolic significance of the book is that its characters are so flawed. These flaws make them seem realistic in the reader’s eyes, so it makes the book symbolic.
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