Abstract
Underpinned by certain Female Gothic elements, Emily Brontë, the maverick female writer in the 19th century, unmasked in her novel Wuthering Heights the increasingly intense alienation in spaces of intimacy as a result of the male-dominated social structure and its ruthless constraints on women, which deprived the fair sex of sense of safety and comfort in the domestic spheres and even provoked their desire for escaping. Her portrait of the three Gothic female characters and the crafting of a Female Gothic ending indicated possible ways to wrestle against the alienation together with the gender-biased hierarchy and led to a reexamination of marriage and family, calling for a soothing mental intimacy preserved through gender equality and personality of intactness and independence.
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