A thematic analysis of Mandatory, Will and Freedom in Wuthering Heights

Authors

  • Asst. Lect. Mohammed Atta Salman Wassit university /College of Arts/ department of Translation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31185/wjfh.Vol21.Iss1/Pt1.757

Keywords:

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë - Heathcliff - Catherine – Mandatory – Will –Freedom - Hegel - Sartre

Abstract

The research includes a literary analysis of the novel Wuthering Heights by the English writer Emily Bronte, where the details and various human feelings, difficulties and conflicts that the characters went through. In this story, the author narrates in this novel, a mix of reality and imagination for the characters from the arrival of Heathcliff until his death in Wuthering Heights. The characters witnessed all the horrors, slavery and its suffering, as the novel presented to us the lives of the characters from childhood until adulthood and then death, since Heathcliff’s arrival from Liverpool and his relationship with Catherine and Hindley, then moving on to the events of the love relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine, and  her decision to marry Edgar Linton to help Heathcliff to obtain freedom, as well as the lives of the characters of the second generation. This novel presents an extraordinary fate of Heathcliff and Catherine, who were in turn prisoners of an imperfect relationship between an adopted person and a girl from an aristocratic family. This study aims to analyze Emily Brontë's characters. The research deals with the different narrative stages in the novel. Which the writer used in narrating the novel. The research also focused on dealing with the phenomenon of mandatory, will, and freedom that Bronte dealt with, taking into account the opinions of Hegel  and Sartre.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Atta Salman, M. . (2021). Wordsworth’s Lucy poems as the Reflections of the French Revolution: A New Historicist Study. Journal of Education College Wasit University, 2(45), 513-546.

https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.Vol2.Iss45.2321

Akinbode, E. (2023). Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existential Freedom: A Critical Analysis.‏

Alexander, Larry and Michael Moore, "Deontological Ethics",The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/ethicsdeontological/

Campbell, G. T. (1977). Sartre’s Absolute Freedom. Laval théologique et philosophique, 33(1), 61-91.‏

Chibuzor, A. F. AN INTEROGATION OF JEAN PAUL SARTRE’S ETHICAL EXISTENTIALISM.‏

Dyde, S. W. (1894). Hegel's conception of freedom. The Philosophical Review, 3(6), 655-671.‏

Egbe, J. A. (2023). THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE EXISTENTIALIST MOVEMENT IN THE DISCOVERY OF THE SELF. Oracle of Wisdom Journal of Philosophy and Public Affairs (OWIJOPPA), 7(3).‏

Brontë, E. Wuthering Heights. Simon and Schuster, inc, 2004 All quotations from the novel are taken from this addition

González, A. M. (2010). Kant and a culture of freedom. ARSP: Archiv für Rechts-und Sozialphilosophie/Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, 291-308.‏

Guyer, P. (2000). Kant on freedom, law, and happiness. Cambridge University Press.‏ p2.

Jacquin, M., O.P. “Le rationalisme de Jean Scot.” Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques, II (1908), 747-748.

Kooy, V. E. (1971). God and Nature in John Scotus Eriugena, 111.‏

Knuuttila, S. (2001). Time and creation in Augustine. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, 103-115.‏

Landau, I. (2012). Sartre’s absolute freedom in being and nothingness: The problems persist. Philosophy Today, 56(4).‏

Luft, E. (2020). The concept of freedom in Hegel? s-Logic. Veritas (Porto Alegre).‏

Leighton, J. A. (1896). Hegel's conception of God. The philosophical review, 5(6), 601-618.‏

Ragland, C. P. (2013). Descartes on degrees of freedom: A close look at a key text. Essays in Philosophy, 14(2), 239-268.‏

Smith, T., & Eshleman, M. C. (2015). A Critique of “Freedom as a Value”: Defending the Early Sartre against Moral Relativism. Sartre Studies International, 21 (2), 108–117. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24720578

Sartre, J. P. (1957). The Humanism of Existentialism. In C. G. Guignon& D. Pereboom (2.), Existentialism Basic Writings (pp. 290-308). (B, Frechtman, Trans.). Indianapolis, IA: Hackett. P296.

Sartre, J-P. (1943/1978), Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, Translated by Hazel Barnes, New York: Pocket Books.

Webber J. M (2018). Rethinking existentialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Downloads

Published

2025-02-01

Issue

Section

European languages and literature

How to Cite

Mohammed Atta Salman, A. L. (2025). A thematic analysis of Mandatory, Will and Freedom in Wuthering Heights. مجلة واسط للعلوم الانسانية, 21(1/Pt1), 852-836. https://doi.org/10.31185/wjfh.Vol21.Iss1/Pt1.757