Gothic Elements in “Wuthering Heights” by Brontë The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the most important Gothic elements found in the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Since the number of these elements and the meaning and timelessness of the novel itself far exceed the limits of this assignment, I will focus primarily on two main components of Wuthering Heights that could be explored in light of the fact that they are Gothic. These are the setting of the novel (both external and internal) and a particular kind of love that occurs between the two main characters, Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. To do this I must first offer a brief explanation of the term Gothic and how it applies to this novel; secondly, I will take a look at the life of Emily Brontë (her life and work are so closely intertwined). Thirdly, I will pay all my attention to the setting of the novel and the love story that takes place there because, in my humble opinion, the peculiar combination of these two elements together with the upside-down and unconventional concept of morality gives this novel its vital force and its timeless charm. To put it simply, Wuthering Heights eternalizes and makes it one of the greatest and most baffling English novels of all time. The online edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica defines Gothic literature as "pseudo-medieval fiction", filled with an atmosphere of mystery, terror and abuse. , with its heyday in the 1790s, but with numerous revivals in subsequent centuries. According to EB this fashion in literature began in England with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1765), but “continued to haunt the fictions of important writers such as the Brontë sisters […]”. Bearing in mind that Wuthering Heights was...... middle of paper......Internet edition of The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrovic Njegos.”. Rastko Project-Digital Library of Serbian Culture, 1 January 2000. Web. 10 March 2014. .Bataj, Žorž. Književnost i zlo. Beograd: BIGZ, 1977. English translation taken from: < http://www.sauer-thompson.com/essays/Emily%20Bront.doc. >.Plyler Fisk, Nicole. Brontë's novels and their early feminist texts. Ann Arbor: ProQuest, 2007.Parker, Patricia. Literary fat ladies: rhetoric, genre, property. London and New York: Methuen, 1987. Lovecraft, H. P. “Supernatural Horror in Literature.” Np, nd Web. 28 January 2014. .Gaskell, Elisabeth. "The Life of Charlotte Bronte." Np, nd Web. April 10. 2014. .