Page 10 - GALIET ETERNITY´S LOVE´S Epitaph: Bronte IV

In Wuthering Heights, there exists “more glory and more grief,” more love and more despair because living signifies struggling in the heathen cliffs of energy 3⁄4 those flaming passions and desires that swell in us and drive us to the very cliffs of Blake’s constellated marriage of Heaven and Hell. By comparing Brontë’s to Blake’s mysticism, we will discover how she centers us beyond the antithesis and vagaries of absolute concepts of time and space, of good and evil, of right and wrong: rather, Brontë centers us into perspectives of “like” and “unlike,” “affinity” and “difference,” and their delightful transfusions into transcendence and immanence. Brontë invites us to accept all experiences whether constructive or self-destructive, earthly or metaphysical as they are: a kaleidoscope of becoming.
Emily Brontë’s world of becoming rejects the antithesis between good and evil and right and wrong. For her, to qualify some actions as good and others as evil is to lack a sense of perspective and objectivity and to create prejudice and there is no narrator more bound to prejudice in her novel than Nelly Dean. Thus, Brontë, rather than accepting and rejecting experiences according to a prescribed morality, accepts all experiences as life affirming. Most of her characters, whether sympathetic or unsympathetic to us, act according to the dictates of their natures and inclinations at a given moment with the most evident exception of Catherine Earnshaw. These characters do not seek to be either praised or blamed even when they undergo changes of mind and heart, although both Victorian narrators may wish us to do so.
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