This paper examines to analyze the structure and substance in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë's novel is quite different from the victorian in its structure technique and content. Wuthering Heights seems to be markedly neat in structure. This story lies between the summer of 1771 and the autumn of 1802. This novel appears to begin with Lockwood's visit to Wuthering Heights. The tales of two narrators, Lockwood and Nelly Dean are knit together, along with various accounts of many other characters in this novel. This story has interwoven plots and structure.
Emily Brontë's novel is a metaphysical and Gothic story. Her guiding motif is the priciple of storm and calm. She showed Wuthering Heights of Earn show and Thrushcross Grange of Linton symbolized storm and calm respectively. Two families conflict by the intervention of an outsider, Heathcliff in fomer parts but at last, they come to be in harmony by characters of two families. Emily Brontë's first objective in Wuthering Heights is to show the cosmic order in struggle of terrible chaotic situation. The structure of this novel makes it easy to effectively convey the development of this story and presents it necessity to the conclusion. Emily's Wuthering Heights seems to be much more pure gothic in form than any of her sisters, she appears to present, on the surface, an apparently quite conventional gothic tale, with a neatly rounded happy ending, but we notice that there is a subtext that dispels the illusion of wholeness that is maintained by the surface narrative. In fact, the subtext shows that the various tales told by the many characters in the novel are not neatly encased in the frame narratives of Nelly and Lockwood; it is rather like jigsaw puzzle with no pattern in it at the end. Thus Emily adopts all the Conventions of the Radcliffean Gothic, such as the wicked uncle Heathcliff, the captive heroine Cathy, the dilapidated Wuthering Heights, and the gallant young Lockwood, but creates a different story altogether.
In Wuthering Heights the conflict is finally resolved by a marriage that is desirable; with the union of the Lintons and Earrnshows, we see that the original conflict that started with undesirable marriages, that is, Catherine's with Edgar's, Isabella's with Heathcliff's and Cathy's with Linton's, at last come to an end.