Comparison of Wuthering Heights of Bronte and Dickens Coketown Throughout British literature, compositions created by honored literary artists reflect current dominant lifestyles. The differences in the prevailing environments are visible when comparing Emily Bronte's Withering Heights and Charles Dickens' Coketown. Bronte reveals the wild, unfettered freedom available even though country life predominated in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, while Dickens explains the daunting effects of industrialization, which caused massive urbanization and numerous negative consequences. In both works, the authors portrayed the lifestyles encouraged by their culture. Rural families, several kilometers apart from each other, were common during Bronte's life, so it is not surprising that she chose this pleasant environment to set the scene of her novel which mirrored her so closely. life. The moors surrounding Withering Heights remind every reader of the peaceful lifestyle that the English enjoyed at this time in their history. As highlighted in Seminar 1, “traveling was not an easy task” at that time, thus making frequent visits between neighbors impossible (JH Seminar 1). Therefore it is understandable that women occupied their time with knitting and gossiping (Seminar 1 KT). The women of Withering Heights portray this idol lifestyle. When Lockwood meets Cathy 2, she is sitting idly in the apartment. Cathy 1 receives many whippings for her wild adventures on the moors as a girl. Later in her life, after her marriage to Edgar Linton, she realizes that her position is to stay at home and receive visitors there. These women represent the lifestyle expected of women during the romantic period. Personal feelings and...... middle of paper ...... these terms infer the results of abandoning faith and religion, vividly showing the differences between the two periods. Each author depicted the darkness of soul separately, just as the characteristics and origins of darkness are separate. This transition from the description of a revolting nature to a desecrated nature graphically describes the atmosphere of each period. Individual struggles dominated the Bronte period in which social difficulties, arising from technological and industrial advances, governed Dickens and his contemporaries. Works Cited Damrosch, David, et al., ed. The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Vol. B. Compact ed. New York: Longman - Addison Wesley Longman, 2000. Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Norton Criticism ed. 3rd ed. Ed. William M. Sale, Jr. and Richard J. Dunn. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.