This novel does seem to fit the events of the time period and setting. The way people acted and behaved around one another seems to fit the time period of the novel, the 1800’s. The relationship between parents or guardians with their children is much different than what it is in today’s society. Back then, they were not, at least in my eyes, good at their parenting skills. They hit or even beat their children when they misbehaved or did something wrong in the parent or guardians eyes. Like I said in an earlier blog, what would that help anything? That just makes the children more aggressive, which is probably one of the contributing factors to why Heathcliff is such a violent, dark man. The relationships between man and woman are not like they are today either. The man in almost any case, is the more important of the two. They were considered stronger and more important, where as the women were only important for child bearing. Heathcliff did care about and deeply love Catherine, and so did Edgar, but still, in the longrun, the men were considered more important. That was how society worked back then, though, so I believe that this story accurately reflected events in history.
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