Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights displays two contrasting settings: Wuthering Heights
and Thrushcross Grange. Wuthering Heights has passionate, strong, and wild citizens, while
Thurshcross Grange has more serene and relaxed occupants, which account for the main
theme of two struggling contrasting forces throughout the novel.
Wuthering Heights was originally a farming household, but now sits on a "bleak hilltop"
where the ground was "hard with a black frost"(Brontë 14). Since there are violent winds
constantly striking the house, the original architect decided to "build it strong"(Brontë 10) with
"narrow windows"(Brontë 10) in the walls and "large jutting stones"(Brontë 10) defending the
corners. The name itself demonstrates its "atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed
to"(Brontë 10). Even the inside of Wuthering Heights are exposed to wildness and tumultuous
nature.