Abstract
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights avoids the devices which have traditionally been seen as functioning in novels to invoke sympathy, even basic character identification. Wuthering Heights is an antipathetic novel in this sense: Emily Brontë refuses to awaken the capacity for sympathetic identification in her readers. Moreover, her novel destabilizes the idea of a common ‘human nature’ which sets mankind apart from animal nature. Her animalizing language undermines the singularity of ‘the Human’ as a unitary concept. There is in Wuthering Heights such variety within human nature that there is no fundamental common essence to human beings, no ‘human nature’ at all, in which sympathy as traditionally understood can take root.
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