wuthering heights and the concept of marality/a sociological study of the novel

to discuss my point, i have collected quite a number of articles, anthologies, and books about "wuthering heights" applying various ideas and theories to this fantastic story. hence, i have come to believe that gadamer and jauss are rightful when they claim that "the individaul human mind is the center and origin of all meaning," 3 that reading literature is a reader-oriented activity, that it is the reader who decides about the meaning of the work he/she is reading-mentally involved in a dialog with it, affecting and being affected by it. out of all the approaches which could be applied to the novel, however the concept of morality. i accept david wilsons statement that heathcliff-catherince relationship works itself out as a metaphor of emily bronts time. this "most prefoundly revolutionary english novel" is "one of the most tremendous indictment of contemporary civilization", "an acute criticism of existing society. it is great as social criticism because it is one of the greatest love stories in the language." there is no denying that "wuthering heights" is a love story or indeed that it utilises elements of the ghost tale; or that it presents powerfull feelings and actions; or that it is a poetic text in offering a rich verbal field, and in utilising a rhetoric dealing in primary images of life and death, heaven and hell, calm and storm. yet, "wuthering heigts" also has aspects which attract those interested in the social and historical contextualization of novel writing. this means confronting the hostility towards the very idea of social and historical approaches to the novel as well as the relevance of ethical or moral concerns to the writing or reading of a novel. there have been lots of critiques concerning issues in biography of emily bronte, sourcestudies, psychoanalytical approaches, formalist and post-structuralist dealings with the text, and feminist arguments. nevertheless, i believe that no human life can be isolated from social and economic forces, which are known less in less in theory than through being engaged with in life, as also in and through writing.